CVE-2026-12805
Executing a manipulation can lead to heap-based buffer overflow.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.47%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A flaw has been found in OFFIS DCMTK up to 3.7.0. The affected element is the function XMLNode::parseFile in the library ofstd/libsrc/ofxml.cc. Executing a manipulation can lead to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit has been published and may be used. This patch is called 1d4b3815c0987840a983160bfc671fef63a3105b. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue. The vendor was contacted early, responded in a very professional manner and quickly released a fixed version of the affected product.
- CVSS 4.0
- 2.1 LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/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
- 0.47% probability · 39th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-122
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
References
- https://git.dcmtk.org/?p=dcmtk.git;a=commit;h=1d4b3815c0987840a983160bfc671fef63a3105b
- https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/1d4b3815c0987840a983160bfc671fef63a3105b
- https://medium.com/@faboherrera.fabo/dcmtk-vulnerability-report-201afc687790
- https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1208
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-12805
- https://vuldb.com/submit/836273
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/372599
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/372599/cti
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.