CVSS 4.0
6.8 mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2026-120251
Medium (6.8). EPSS 0.1% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
imagecodecs 2026.3.6 through 2026.10.10 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in ccitt_fax4_decode_size() that allows attackers to hang the calling process by supplying a crafted CCITT Group 4 stream. Attackers can provide an 8-byte G4 stream lacking EOFB to ccittfax4_decode() or the numcodecs Ccittfax4 codec, consuming full CPU until the process is killed.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- EPSS
- 0.1% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 2nd percentile. Scored 2026-11-01. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
- CWE
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
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