CVE-2026-46603

high

EUVD alias: EUVD-2026-58720

Assigned by CNA: go

Published 2026-08-14 · Modified 2026-08-14

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

VP8L decoding in golang.org/x/image/vp8l can allocate an excessive amount of memory when processing a crafted VP8L image containing many unused Huffman tree groups. This allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	golang.org/x/image	`<0.45.0`	`0.45.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-789: CWE-789

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.