CVE-2022-41727 | Denial of service via crafted TIFF image in golang.org/x/image/tiff

An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig. This could lead to a denial of service.

Published: 2023-02-28 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2022-41727 is rated Low Risk (25.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.03%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-41727

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-02-13 0.06% 0.03% -0.03%
2 2026-01-14 0.03% 0.06% +0.03%
3 2025-11-21 — 0.03% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-41727

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-41727

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2022-41727

GHSA-qgc7-mgm3-q253 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in golang.org/x/image

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-41727

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2022-41727 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (golang-golang-x-image), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 4, open 1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-41727
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41727
suse medium — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41727/
ubuntu medium CVE-2022-41727 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (golang-golang-x-image), 13 status rows across 13 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 5, ignored 4, needs-triage 3, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-41727

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-41727

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
golang image < 0.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:golang:image:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
golang tiff — cpe:2.3:a:golang:tiff:-:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 37 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 38 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2022-41727

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