Excessive resource consumption in PackBits decompression in golang.org/x/image/tiff
Priority LOW 39CWE-770Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 4 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-770.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00353 29th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial golang.org/x/image/tiff (golang.org/x/image): 0.41.0golang.org/x/image (Go): 0.41.0Red Hat: 1 advisoryRed Hat: 1 fixed, 4 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go standard library | golang.org/x/image/tiff | before 0.41.0 | 0.41.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | golang.org/x/image (Go) | before 0.41.0 | 0.41.0 | Patch available | GHSA-q675-qj96-32m9 |
- golang.org/x/image/tiff VendorGo standard library Affected before 0.41.0 Fixed in 0.41.0 Patch available CNA
- golang.org/x/image (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.41.0 Fixed in 0.41.0 Patch available GHSA-q675-qj96-32m9
Remediation
- Fix · CNA golang.org/x/image/tiff (golang.org/x/image) Fixed in 0.41.0
- Fix · GHSA-q675-qj96-32m9 golang.org/x/image (Go) Fixed in 0.41.0 Advisory →
Red Hat 1 advisory
- RHSA-2026:48151 Released 2026-07-29 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat build of Cryostat security update
- Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9 cryostat/cryostat-grafana-dashboard-rhel9, cryostat/cryostat-openshift-console-plugin-rhel9, cryostat/cryostat-reports-rhel9 +4
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:48151 |
Not affected: 1 product
- Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-46599
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-q675-qj96-32m9
- 2026-10-25 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-31 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
More Go standard library vulnerabilities
- TI-2020-00578 Improper certificate validation in Microsoft Windows KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-24278 HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/http CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2018-05208 The "go get" implementation in Go 1.9.4, when the -insecure command-line option is used… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2024-16309 Panic when parsing invalid palette-color images in golang.org/x/image CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2022-20112 Request smuggling due to improper request handling in golang.org/x/net/http2/h2c CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-46599 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-46599 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-q675-qj96-32m9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-46599 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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