CVE-2026-111125

medium

Description

CFITSIO through 4.7.0 contains a heap-based out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the HCOMPRESS tile decoder that allows attackers to read past the compressed tile buffer via input_nnybble in fits_hdecompress.c. Attackers can supply a crafted FITS file with ZCMPTYPE HCOMPRESS_1 declaring oversized tile geometry to crash applications calling fits_read_pix or disclose limited heap memory.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cfitsio-through-4.7.0-heap-out-of-bounds-read-via-hcompress-input-nnybble

https://hackmd.io/@haind-pwn/cfitsio-zdither0-dither-seed-oob-read

https://github.com/HEASARC/cfitsio/blob/d6d27653740864a0483e74cff23c53e34e1dceee/imcompress.c#L6310-L6316

https://github.com/HEASARC/cfitsio/blob/d6d27653740864a0483e74cff23c53e34e1dceee/fits_hdecompress.c#L2575-L2633

https://github.com/HEASARC/cfitsio

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-102356

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-15

Updated: 2026-10-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00129