CVE-2026-46599

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Published 2026-05-29 · Modified 2026-05-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

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.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	golang.org/x/image	`<0.41.0`	`0.41.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-770:

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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