CVE-2026-3281
A vulnerability was detected in libvips 8.19.0.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A vulnerability was detected in libvips 8.19.0. This affects the function vips_bandrank_build of the file libvips/conversion/bandrank.c. Performing a manipulation of the argument index results in heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be initiated from a local position. The exploit is now public and may be used. The patch is named fd28c5463697712cb0ab116a2c55e4f4d92c4088. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.
- CVSS 4.0
- 1.9 LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/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
- 0.27% probability · 19th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-122
- Affected
- libvips/libvips
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
EPSS 0.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/Product
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/fd28c5463697712cb0ab116a2c55e4f4d92c4088Patch
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4878Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4878#issue-3944209102Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4895Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.348010Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.348010Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.758861Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.