CVE-2026-46599: high-severity vulnerability in golang.org/x/image/tiff
Excessive resource consumption in PackBits decompression in golang.org/x/image/tiff
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 51% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
golang.org/x/image · golang.org/x/image/tiffRelated CVEs — golang.org/x/image/tiff
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2023-29408—Excessive resource consumption in golang.org/x/image/tiffEPSS 0.9%CVE-2023-29407—Excessive CPU consumption when decoding 0-height images in golang.org/x/image/tiffEPSS 0.9%CVE-2024-24792HIGHPanic when parsing invalid palette-color images in golang.org/x/imageEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-46604HIGHPanic decoding image with out-of-bounds strip offset in x/image/tiff in golang.org/x/imageEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-46602HIGHLack of limit on tile sizes in x/image/tiff in golang.org/x/imageEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-33809MEDIUMOOM from malicious IFD offset in golang.org/x/image/tiffEPSS 0.4%