Medium (6.5). EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in golang.org/x/image 0.10.0.
A maliciously-crafted image can cause excessive CPU consumption in decoding. A tiled image with a height of 0 and a very large width can cause excessive CPU consumption, despite the image size (width * height) appearing to be zero.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)