Dashboard / CVE-2026-120251

CVE-2026-120251

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 39/100
Published: 2026-11-01 Modified: 2026-11-06 First seen: 2026-11-01 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Auth

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: Passive
AT: None
VC: None
VI: None
VA: High

Description

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
cgohlke imagecodecs 2026.3.6
cgohlke imagecodecs 2026.3.6

References & Advisories (4)

Bug Bounty Relevance

39 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity

CVSS Score

6.8 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.12%
Raw Score 0.001240
Percentile 2.2%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00124
2026-11-12
0.00124
2026-11-10
0.00124
2026-11-09
0.00124
2026-11-08
0.00124
2026-11-07
0.00124
2026-11-06
0.00124
2026-11-05
0.00124
2026-11-04
0.00124
2026-11-03
0.00124
2026-11-02
0.00124
2026-11-01
0.00124

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
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