{"id":"CVE-2026-44035","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-44035","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:41:03.423Z","title":"Uncontrolled recursion in DcmDicomDir::moveRecordToTree() in dcmdata/libsrc/dcdicdir.cc of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted DICOMDIR file with a deeply chained sequence…","description":"Uncontrolled recursion in DcmDicomDir::moveRecordToTree() in dcmdata/libsrc/dcdicdir.cc of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted DICOMDIR file with a deeply chained sequence of directory records linked through the Offset of Referenced Lower-Level Directory Entity attribute. Any application that opens the DICOMDIR is affected, including dcmgpdir and media viewers built on DCMTK. The issue is fixed in commit ca761f7f3dcaaddaa95be87cf5d736138d7c3a9f.","published":"2026-10-08T13:17:17.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-08T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9c","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-674"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00105,"percentile":0.0107,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-09","score":0.00105,"percentile":0.0101}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.10%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-08T13:17:17.000Z","detail":{"score":"6.8","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-08T13:17:17.497Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/ca761f7f3dcaaddaa95be87cf5d736138d7c3a9f","source":"33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9c"},{"url":"https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1215","source":"33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9c"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44035","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}