CVE-2026-46599

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

High · published May 29, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00630 · 49.5th percentile
Published
2026-05-29T19:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 MAY 19:35Z
    Excessive resource consumption in PackBits decompression in golang.org/x/image/tiff
    cvelistv5