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.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 2.1NVD modified 2026-10-25 23:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://git.dcmtk.org/?p=dcmtk.git;a=commit;h=1d4b3815c0987840a983160bfc671fef63a3105b
- https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/1d4b3815c0987840a983160bfc671fef63a3105b
- https://medium.com/@faboherrera.fabo/dcmtk-vulnerability-report-201afc687790
- https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1208
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-12805
- https://vuldb.com/submit/836273
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/372599
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/372599/cti