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CVE-2026-6491

Published: Apr 17, 2026

Modified: Apr 18, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

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".

VendorProductVersions

n/a

libvips

affected
8.18.0
affected
8.18.1
affected
8.18.2

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-122
CWE-119

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:T/RC:C

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

Low

References

VDB-358035 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)
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