CVE-2022-41727 — An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant am

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
golang.org	x/image / golang.org/x/image/tiff	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-02-28T17:19:47.090Z
• Last modified: 2025-03-07T17:55:51.961Z

09References

• go.dev — https://go.dev/issue/58003
• go.dev — https://go.dev/cl/468195
• groups.google.com — https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/ag-FiyjlD5o
• pkg.go.dev — https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1572
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]…
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]…
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]…