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CVE-2022-41727
Denial of service via crafted TIFF image in golang.org/x/image/tiff
Medium5.5EPSS 0.31%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Go
Description
An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig. This could lead to a denial of service.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Go
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-770 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-770 and its CVEs
Affected products
golang.org/x/image · golang.org/x/image/tiff
- affected < 0.5.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogolang.org/x/imageGHSA-qgc7-mgm3-q253 (opens in a new tab)
References (7)
- https://go.dev/issue/58003 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://go.dev/cl/468195 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/ag-FiyjlD5o (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1572 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KO54NBDUJXKAZNGCFOEYL2LKK2RQP6K6/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XWH6Q7NVM4MV3GWFEU4PA67AWZHVFJQ2/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XZTEP6JYILRBNDTNWTEQ5D4QUUVQBESK/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qgc7-mgm3-q253 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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