Excessive resource consumption in PackBits decompression in golang.org/x/image/tiff

Summary

CVECVE-2026-46599
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerGo
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-05-29 20:16:28 UTC
Updated2026-05-29 20:16:28 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.000180000 probability, percentile 0.049330000 (date 2026-05-30)

Problem Types: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Golang.orgximage Golang.org/x/image/tiff affected 0.41.0 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
go.dev/cl/759960 [email protected] go.dev
go.dev/issue/79577 [email protected] go.dev
pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-5032 [email protected] pkg.go.dev
groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/uhYX90BlBvI [email protected] groups.google.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Uuganbayar Lkhamsuren (en)

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