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CVE-2022-4981

A vulnerability was detected in DCMTK up to 3.6.7.

LOW 1.9EPSS 0.25%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.25%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A vulnerability was detected in DCMTK up to 3.6.7. The impacted element is the function DcmQueryRetrieveConfig::readPeerList of the file /dcmqrcnf.cc of the component dcmqrscp. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit is now public and may be used. Upgrading to version 3.6.8 is sufficient to resolve this issue. The patch is identified as 957fb31e5. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

CVSS 4.0
1.9 LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
0.25% probability · 17th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-404, CWE-476
Affected
offis/dcmtk
Source
cna@vuldb.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.