Medium 6.1Published Oct 15, 2026

CVE-2026-111125CFITSIO through 4.7.0 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via HCOMPRESS input_nnybble

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 3:50 AM ET)

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CFITSIO through 4.7.0 contains a heap-based out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the HCOMPRESS tile decoder that allows attackers to read past the compressed tile buffer via input_nnybble in fits_hdecompress.c. Attackers can supply a crafted FITS file with ZCMPTYPE HCOMPRESS_1 declaring oversized tile geometry to crash applications calling fits_read_pix or disclose limited heap memory.

CVSS: 6.1 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-125
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: VulnCheck
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Oct 20, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 15, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

HEASARC cfitsio heasarc:cfitsio (from the name)	through 4.7.0	CNA record
nasa cfitsio nasa:cfitsio	through 4.7.0	NVD

References

References

https://hackmd.io/@haind-pwn/cfitsio-zdither0-dither-seed-oob-read	technical-description, exploit, mitigation, third-party-advisory
https://github.com/HEASARC/cfitsio/blob/d6d27653740864a0483e74cff23c53e34e1dceee/fits_hdecompress.c#L2575-L2633	technical-description, product
https://github.com/HEASARC/cfitsio/blob/d6d27653740864a0483e74cff23c53e34e1dceee/imcompress.c#L6310-L6316	technical-description, product
https://github.com/HEASARC/cfitsio	product
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cfitsio-through-4.7.0-heap-out-of-bounds-read-via-hcompress-input-nnybble	third-party-advisory

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