CVE-2026-12805

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
OFFISDCMTK3.0affected
OFFISDCMTK3.1affected
OFFISDCMTK3.2affected
OFFISDCMTK3.3affected
OFFISDCMTK3.4affected
OFFISDCMTK3.5affected
OFFISDCMTK3.6affected
OFFISDCMTK3.7.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-119: Memory Corruption

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References