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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-14

Updated: 2026-08-14

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: 7.5

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

Severity: High