CVE-2026-46599

medium

Description

The TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of PackBits-compressed data. A maliciously-crafted image can exploit this to cause a small image (both in terms of pixel width/height and encoded size) to make the decoder decode large amounts of compressed data.

References

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-5032

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/uhYX90BlBvI

https://go.dev/issue/79577

https://go.dev/cl/759960

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-29

Updated: 2026-05-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018