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CVE-2023-29408: Excessive resource consumption in golang.org/x/image/tiff

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.93% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 60.7% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/tiff 0.10.0.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/tiff 0.10.0 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of compressed tile 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, consuming excessive memory and CPU.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Aug 2, 2023
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.9% · 60th percentile

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Action score

26

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.9%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
golangimage
fedoraprojectfedora

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • fedoraproject fedora37
  • fedoraproject fedora38
  • golang imagebefore 0.10.0

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 0.10.0affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12golang-golang-x-imagefrom 0—
Debian:13golang-golang-x-imagebefore 0.11.0-10.11.0-1
Gogolang.org/x/imagebefore 0.10.00.10.0
openSUSE:Leap 15.5keybase-clientbefore 6.2.8-bp156.2.3.16.2.8-bp156.2.3.1
openSUSE:Tumbleweedkeybase-clientbefore 6.2.2-2.16.2.2-2.1
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP5keybase-clientbefore 6.2.8-bp156.2.3.16.2.8-bp156.2.3.1

Same product

golang: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-33813Panic when decoding large WEBP image on 32-bit platforms in golang.org/x/image
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2023-29407Excessive CPU consumption when decoding 0-height images in golang.org/x/image/tiff
    26Monitor
  • CVE-2026-33812Excessive memory allocation when decoding malicious SFNT in golang.org/x/image
    24Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-41727Feb 28, 2023 · Denial of service via crafted TIFF image in golang.org/x/image/tiff
    22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/tiff0.10.0Vendor (CNA)
debian:golang-golang-x-image0.11.0-1 · Debian:13Package registry (OSV)
Go:golang.org/x/image0.10.0Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:keybase-client6.2.8-bp156.2.3.1 · openSUSE:Leap 15.5Package registry (OSV)
suse:keybase-client6.2.8-bp156.2.3.1 · SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP5Package 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.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

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

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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.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • 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
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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