CVE-2026-46603

high

Description

VP8L decoding in golang.org/x/image/vp8l can allocate an excessive amount of memory when processing a crafted VP8L image containing many unused Huffman tree groups. This allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion.

References

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6222

https://go.dev/issue/80069

https://go.dev/cl/793460

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-58720

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-14

Updated: 2026-09-03

Named Vulnerability: GO-2026-6222

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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