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CVE-2026-6491
A security vulnerability has been detected in libvips up to 8.18.2.
LOW 1.9EPSS 0.16%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A security vulnerability has been detected in libvips up to 8.18.2. The affected element is the function im_minpos_vec of the file libvips/deprecated/vips7compat.c of the component nip2 Handler. Such manipulation of the argument n leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The vendor confirms that they will "be removing the deprecated area in libvips 8.19".
- 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
- 0.16% probability · 6th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-122
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
References
- https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/tree/main/libvips_im_minpos_vec_oob
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4965
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4965#issuecomment-4135003499
- https://vuldb.com/submit/786994
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/358035
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/358035/cti
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.