Medium 6.8Published Jul 20, 2026

CVE-2026-35590Possible out-of-bounds read leading to crash when decoding well-crafted EXIF metadata

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 8:30 PM ET)

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libvips is a fast image processing library with low memory needs. The EXIF decoder within libvips versions before and including 8.18.1 was not verifying the range of EXIF tag groups before passing data to libexif, leading to a possible null pointer dereference and crash. This has been patched in version 8.18.2.

CVSS: 6.8 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-122
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 20, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

libvips libvips libvips:libvips (from the name)	through 8.18.1	CNA record
libvips libvips libvips:libvips	before 8.18.2	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-jmwm-wc68-mhwm	x-refsource-confirm, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/pull/4972	x-refsource-misc, issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/commit/91ebd4d35341a8353ea490392d556d582e4b846f	x-refsource-misc, patch

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