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The change adds an EXR loader that returns float32 RGB data and optional alpha, with color conversion for supported chromaticities. LoadImage checks registered loaders by lowercase extension and uses their output when available. File-type detection recognizes EXR and normalizes extensions to lowercase. The OpenEXR dependency is added as non-essential.


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Merge Risk | 🟡 Moderate · up to d11a3

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d11a3

EXR loading is new. Luminance/chroma EXR files load as grayscale, and multipart files can load incompletely, without any error. Make these cases fail clearly, or support them, before merging.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d11a3

The new EXR decoder processes user-supplied files without a demonstrated decoded-size budget before native processing. Existing path checks and upload limits remain, but they do not establish a bound on decoding resources. This is an unresolved containment risk, not a verified exploit.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new OpenEXR dispatch admits user-controlled files to native processing without a demonstrated pre-decode resource budget. Deep-image rejection occurs after OpenEXR.File construction, followed by channel-sized array allocations and tensor conversion. Resource exhaustion could affect the executing process and other workloads sharing its resources. Native limits and deployment containment are unverified; this is an inferred risk specific to the new parser path, not a claim that generic image resource exposure originated in this PR.
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  • inferred — A client able to supply an EXR file and trigger a consuming workflow can reach the native decoder. The supported potential impact is CPU, host-memory, and configured intermediate-device resource consumption in the executing runtime, potentially affecting workloads sharing those resources. Cross-tenant exposure, privilege gain, credential access, and compromise of other services are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The unresolved attack path is a user-controlled EXR reaching OpenEXR.File without a demonstrated application-level decoded-size limit, followed by channel-sized arrays and tensor conversion. Repository inspection strengthens reachability evidence but does not verify an exhaustion exploit or native allocation behavior. The canonical denial-of-service candidate remains deferred, not a retained finding.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The upload server configures a global request-size limit, defaulting to 100 MiB. Its image-upload handler accepts the supplied extension and stores file bytes without an EXR dimension check in that handler. Before decoding, contained-path resolution prevents escape from the selected base directory. These controls constrain request bytes and file location, not decoded pixel or channel allocations.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The unchanged baseline video decoder accumulates decoded frames and stacks them into tensors without an application-level pixel budget in the inspected implementation. Generic image-memory pressure therefore predates this PR. Existing exception handling reports ordinary failures and unloads models for recognized out-of-memory exceptions; it is not evidence of isolation from native process failure.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Establish a shared decoder resource policy: use a bounded header preflight where supported to reject unsupported storage types and excessive dimensions, channel counts, and estimated decoded bytes before pixel loading. Verify native-library limits and, for deployments accepting untrusted files, consider a resource-limited decoding worker with execution deadlines. These are proposed safeguards, not observed controls.

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- Around line 63-64: Update the Y-channel branch in the EXR loading logic so
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requirements.txt

[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Deep Scanline Parsing via Forged Unpacked Size

(PYSEC-2026-1747)


[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR Makes Use of Uninitialized Memory

(PYSEC-2026-2843)


[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR has use after free in PyObject_StealAttrString

(PYSEC-2026-2844)


[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR has a signed 32-bit Overflow in PIZ Decoder Leads to OOB Read/Write

(PYSEC-2026-2845)


[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR's CompositeDeepScanLine integer-overflow leads to heap OOB write

(PYSEC-2026-2846)


[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR: integer overflow to OOB write in uncompress_b44_impl()

(PYSEC-2026-2847)


[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR: DWA Lossy Decoder Heap Out-of-Bounds Write

(PYSEC-2026-2848)


[MEDIUM] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR has heap-buffer-overflow via signed integer underflow in ImfContextInit.cpp

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[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR: Heap information disclosure in PXR24 decompression via unchecked decompressed size (undo_pxr24_impl)

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[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR has buffer overflow in PyOpenEXR_old's channels() and channel()

(PYSEC-2026-2851)


[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR Makes Use of Uninitialized Memory

(GHSA-3h9h-qfvw-98hq)


[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR has use after free in PyObject_StealAttrString

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[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR has a signed 32-bit Overflow in PIZ Decoder Leads to OOB Read/Write

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[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR's CompositeDeepScanLine integer-overflow leads to heap OOB write

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[HIGH] 32-32: openexr 3.3.0: OpenEXR: integer overflow to OOB write in uncompress_b44_impl()

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  • EXR uploads are already accepted for image widgets via WidgetSelectDropdown.vue:134-140, with regression coverage at WidgetSelectDropdown.test.ts:164-176. [::Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend::]
  • EXR outputs already use the HDR viewer rather than browser image rendering, covered by ImagePreview.test.ts:164 and hdrViewerService.test.ts:11-18. [::Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend::]
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Preflight EXR dimensions before decoding pixels. OpenEXR.File(path, separate_channels=True) constructs the decoded image before the deep-image check runs. A crafted EXR can therefore allocate large pixel arrays before this loader rejects it. Enforce a decoded-size limit from the header before accessing channel pixel data, unless an earlier boundary guarantees the same limit.

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The cited OpenEXR vulnerability is mitigated by the loader.

comfy_extras/image_formats/exr.py opens files with separate_channels=True, which avoids the vulnerable RGB/RGBA coalescing path described by GHSA-994f-rr2m-9r7x. It then rejects deep EXR files. Raising the dependency minimum is not required for this specific finding.

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def load(path):
"""Return linear Rec.709 RGB (H, W, 3) and optional alpha (H, W), both float32."""
with OpenEXR.File(path, separate_channels=True) as exr:
header = exr.header()

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject multipart files before selecting a part.

header() and channels() select only the first part. If a multipart EXR has RGB data in its first part, this loader silently ignores the remaining parts and returns an incomplete image. Check len(exr.parts) and reject unsupported multipart files, or select parts under an explicit loading contract. OpenEXR recommends a part-count check when application code expects one part. (openexr.com)

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elif "Y" in channels:
rgb = np.repeat(channels["Y"].pixels.astype(np.float32, copy=False)[..., None], 3, axis=-1)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not load luminance/chroma EXR files as grayscale.

When an EXR contains Y, RY, and BY, this branch repeats Y and discards both chroma channels. The resulting IMAGE has incorrect colors. Reconstruct RGB with the required chroma sampling, or reject this layout explicitly until it is supported. OpenEXR defines these channels as a color-image layout. (openexr.com)

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Review comment at @comfy_extras/image_formats/exr.py around lines 63 - 64:
Update the Y-channel branch in the EXR loading logic so files containing Y, RY,
and BY do not silently become grayscale: reconstruct RGB using the required
chroma sampling, or explicitly reject this layout until reconstruction is
supported. Preserve grayscale handling for files that contain Y without chroma
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This seems to works fine. Some attention points:

  • When the EXR has a single channel (Y), the information is lost as the Save Image (Advanced) node saves images with 3 channels RGB
  • Having a node to get an image info such as bit depth, channels, color space, would be useful.

Tested with 4 different images:

Simple workflow: Load Image -> Preview Image -> Save Image (Advanced)

{BF408299-0463-436F-AF9E-1FC57EFDB15A}

The input and output images seem identical, both visually and in terms of metadata:

GrayRampsDiagonal.exr

Input:

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\GrayRampsDiagonal.exr")
{'bit_depths': {'Y': 'HALF'}, 'chromaticities': None, 'color_space_tag': None}
{4A0EA91D-E07F-4280-ADB0-B50C467177D0}

Output:

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\ComfyUI_00265.exr")
{'bit_depths': {'B': 'HALF', 'G': 'HALF', 'R': 'HALF'}, 'chromaticities': (0.6399999856948853, 0.33000001311302185) (0.30000001192092896, 0.6000000238418579) (0.15000000596046448, 0.05999999865889549) (0.3127000033855438, 0.32899999618530273), 'color_space_tag': None}
{54976F91-14C0-439C-905E-84E2EC66A3C1}

GrayRampsHorizontal.exr

Input:

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\GrayRampsHorizontal.exr")
{'bit_depths': {'Y': 'HALF'}, 'chromaticities': None, 'color_space_tag': None}
{E06B4DAC-AD2C-4704-B188-812A0EC57564}

Output:

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\ComfyUI_00266.exr")
{'bit_depths': {'B': 'HALF', 'G': 'HALF', 'R': 'HALF'}, 'chromaticities': (0.6399999856948853, 0.33000001311302185) (0.30000001192092896, 0.6000000238418579) (0.15000000596046448, 0.05999999865889549) (0.3127000033855438, 0.32899999618530273), 'color_space_tag': None}
{43126DFD-F8FB-4BD1-9638-F8749807E770}

GammaChart.exr

Input:

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\GammaChart.exr")
{'bit_depths': {'B': 'HALF', 'G': 'HALF', 'R': 'HALF'}, 'chromaticities': None, 'color_space_tag': None}
{0808A65C-A692-429F-81F6-F69DA2A71C15}

Output:

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\ComfyUI_00267.exr")
{'bit_depths': {'B': 'HALF', 'G': 'HALF', 'R': 'HALF'}, 'chromaticities': (0.6399999856948853, 0.33000001311302185) (0.30000001192092896, 0.6000000238418579) (0.15000000596046448, 0.05999999865889549) (0.3127000033855438, 0.32899999618530273), 'color_space_tag': None}
{B61C5A6E-E8F6-4BD0-8C94-400E70B57856}

RgbRampsDiagonal.exr

Input:

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\RgbRampsDiagonal.exr")
{'bit_depths': {'B': 'HALF', 'G': 'HALF', 'R': 'HALF'}, 'chromaticities': None, 'color_space_tag': None}
{93068F24-7912-44B3-B2FF-D281A303BD21}

Output:

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\ComfyUI_00268.exr")
{'bit_depths': {'B': 'HALF', 'G': 'HALF', 'R': 'HALF'}, 'chromaticities': (0.6399999856948853, 0.33000001311302185) (0.30000001192092896, 0.6000000238418579) (0.15000000596046448, 0.05999999865889549) (0.3127000033855438, 0.32899999618530273), 'color_space_tag': None}
{8A75801E-1038-4CE8-A408-AC8B108E338A}

Complete Code Snippet

import OpenEXR

def get_exr_metadata(file_path):
    # Open the EXR file
    exr_file = OpenEXR.InputFile(file_path)
    header = exr_file.header()
    
    # 1. Get Bit Depth (Pixel Type)
    # OpenEXR channels contain the pixel type (HALF, FLOAT, or UINT)
    channels = header.get('channels', {})
    bit_depths = {}
    for name, channel in channels.items():
        # channel.type is an Imath.PixelType object
        bit_depths[name] = str(channel.type)
    
    # 2. Get Color Space / Chromaticities (Gamut)
    # OpenEXR standard uses the 'chromaticities' attribute for custom/standard gamuts
    chromaticities = header.get('chromaticities')
    
    # 3. Get Color Space Metadata Tags
    # Many modern pipelines (ACES, OCIO) store color space names as string attributes
    color_space_tag = header.get('colorSpace')
    if color_space_tag:
        color_space_tag = color_space_tag.decode('utf-8') if isinstance(color_space_tag, bytes) else color_space_tag

    return {
        "bit_depths": bit_depths,
        "chromaticities": chromaticities,
        "color_space_tag": color_space_tag
    }

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\GrayRampsHorizontal.exr")
get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\ComfyUI_00265.exr")

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\GrayRampsDiagonal.exr")
get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\ComfyUI_00266.exr")

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\GammaChart.exr")
get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\ComfyUI_00267.exr")

get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\RgbRampsDiagonal.exr")
get_exr_metadata("C:\\Users\\Alexis\\Downloads\\ComfyUI_00268.exr")

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