Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting golang.org/x/image/tiff package, versions <0.43.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.61% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GOLANGORGXIMAGETIFF-17660879
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed25 Jun 2026
  • creditPrasanna Dab

Introduced: 25 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-46602  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade golang.org/x/image/tiff to version 0.43.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the absence of a restriction on tile sizes in the TIFF image decoding process. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by providing a specially crafted image file with extremely large tiles.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1