Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value Affecting cimg package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CIMG-16417755
  • published5 May 2026
  • disclosed4 May 2026
  • creditJorgeBarredo14

Introduced: 4 May 2026

CVE-2026-42146  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in the nb_colors field of the BMP file header during the _load_bmp process. An attacker can cause an out-of-memory condition and crash the application by supplying a crafted BMP file with a large nb_colors value.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1