CVE-2026-22186
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Bio-Formats has an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | ome:pom-bio-formats | <=8.3.0 | |
References
- https://github.com/ome/bioformats/security/advisories/GHSA-x9vc-qh97-8gjp
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22186
- https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats
- https://github.com/ome/bioformats
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2026/Jan/6
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/bio-formats-xxe-in-leica-xlef-metadata-parser
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.