CVE-2022-4981

medium

Published 2025-10-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

5.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

1.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A vulnerability was detected in DCMTK up to 3.6.7. The impacted element is the function DcmQueryRetrieveConfig::readPeerList of the file /dcmqrcnf.cc of the component dcmqrscp. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit is now public and may be used. Upgrading to version 3.6.8 is sufficient to resolve this issue. The patch is identified as 957fb31e5. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.6.8-5`
sid	Fixed	`3.6.8-5`
forky	Fixed	`3.6.8-5`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.6.5-1+deb11u5`
bookworm	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
offis	dcmtk	`{"endExcluding":"3.6.8"}`	`3.6.8`

References

CWEs

CWE-404 CWE-476

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

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