CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-54604

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2026-09-17 Modified 2026-09-23 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-09-17
Last modified
2026-09-23
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/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/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Weaknesses
CWE-758, CWE-908

Description

OpenSlide is a C library for reading whole slide image files. Prior to 4.0.1, a behavior change in libtiff 4.7.1 causes the indirect TIFF tile path in src/openslide-decode-tiff.c and _openslide_tiff_read_tile() to request a full-height destination for a partial bottom tile row, allowing uninitialized heap memory to enter pixel data returned by openslide_read_region(). A crafted but valid slide can trigger the issue in TIFF-based formats other than Hamamatsu NDPI when a network service renders attacker-provided slides. Successful extraction depends on pixel transparency handling and recompression, OpenSlide with libtiff 4.7.0 or earlier is not affected, and official binary builds 4.0.0.10 and 4.0.0.11 are affected. This issue is fixed in OpenSlide 4.0.1 and official binary build 4.0.0.12.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-758 Reliance on Undefined, Unspecified, or Implementation-Defined Behavior weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

References