CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-6491

1.9 LOW Published 2026-04-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-04-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — CVSS: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/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-122

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".

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness

References