CVE-2022-4981

medium

Published 2025-10-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

CVSS v3

5.5

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

CVSS v2

1.7

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A vulnerability was detected in DCMTK up to 3.6.7. The impacted element is the function DcmQueryRetrieveConfig::readPeerList of the file /dcmqrcnf.cc of the component dcmqrscp. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit is now public and may be used. Upgrading to version 3.6.8 is sufficient to resolve this issue. The patch is identified as 957fb31e5. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-4981

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cna@vuldb.com — https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1026

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.6.5-1+deb11u5`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.6.8-5`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.6.8-5`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.6.8-5`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
offis	dcmtk	`{"endExcluding":"3.6.8"}`	`3.6.8`

References

CWEs

CWE-404 CWE-476

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.