CVE-2026-12805

medium

Description

A flaw has been found in OFFIS DCMTK up to 3.7.0. The affected element is the function XMLNode::parseFile in the library ofstd/libsrc/ofxml.cc. Executing a manipulation can lead to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit has been published and may be used. This patch is called 1d4b3815c0987840a983160bfc671fef63a3105b. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue. The vendor was contacted early, responded in a very professional manner and quickly released a fixed version of the affected product.

References

https://vuldb.com/vuln/372599/cti

https://vuldb.com/vuln/372599

https://vuldb.com/submit/836273

https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-12805

https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1208

https://medium.com/@faboherrera.fabo/dcmtk-vulnerability-report-201afc687790

https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/1d4b3815c0987840a983160bfc671fef63a3105b

https://git.dcmtk.org/?p=dcmtk.git;a=commit;h=1d4b3815c0987840a983160bfc671fef63a3105b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-21

Updated: 2026-06-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium