CVE-2026-50003criticalCWE-22

CVE-2026-50003: critical vulnerability in OFFIS DICOM DCMTK Toolkit

OFFIS DCMTK Toolkit Path Traversal

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28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 9.3epss 0.7%
A malicious or compromised server can make a DCMTK client using bit-preserving C-GET storage mode write files outside the chosen output directory, using both relative (../) paths and absolute paths.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
OFFIS DICOM · DCMTK Toolkit
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