CVE-2026-46599
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.06%Excessive resource consumption in PackBits decompression in golang.org/x/image/tiff
Published: 5/29/2026Modified: 6/2/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46599
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/golang-golang-x-imagefrom 0
- Go/golang.org/x/imagefrom 0, < 0.41.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |