Panic when parsing invalid palette-color images in golang.org/x/image
Parsing a corrupt or malicious image with invalid color indices can cause a panic.
- Published
- Jun 27, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.7% · 53th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-125
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Action score
30
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.7%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- proof of concept
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| golang | image | cpe:2.3:a:golang:image |
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Go). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/tiff
- before 0.18.0affected · semver
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | golang-golang-x-image | all versions | — |
| Debian:13 | golang-golang-x-image | before 0.18.0-1 | 0.18.0-1 |
| Go | golang.org/x/image | before 0.18.0 | 0.18.0 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | gomuks | before 0.3.0-3.1 | 0.3.0-3.1 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | keybase-client | before 6.3.1-2.1 | 6.3.1-2.1 |
| SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP5 | keybase-client | before 6.2.8-bp156.2.6.1 | 6.2.8-bp156.2.6.1 |
| SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP5 | keybase-client | before 6.2.8-bp156.2.6.1 | 6.2.8-bp156.2.6.1 |
Same product
golang.org/x/image: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-46602Lack of limit on tile sizes in x/image/tiff in golang.org/x/image30Monitor
- CVE-2026-46599Excessive resource consumption in PackBits decompression in golang.org/x/image/tiff30Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/tiff | 0.18.0 | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:golang-golang-x-image | 0.18.0-1 · Debian:13 | Package registry (OSV) |
| Go:golang.org/x/image | 0.18.0 | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:gomuks | 0.3.0-3.1 · openSUSE:Tumbleweed | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:keybase-client | 6.2.8-bp156.2.6.1 · openSUSE:Leap 15.5 | Package registry (OSV) |
| suse:keybase-client | 6.2.8-bp156.2.6.1 · SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP5 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds ReadCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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Noroxi analysis
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.