CVE-2026-50254 PUBLISHED

OFFIS DCMTK Toolkit Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner: icscert
Reserved: 22.06.2026 Published: 30.06.2026 Updated: 30.06.2026

An unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly send a single crafted connection request to leak memory. Against storescp in its default single-process mode, memory grows quickly and the service is eventually killed, after which it stops accepting connections until an operator restarts it.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor OFFIS DICOM
Product DCMTK Toolkit
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.7.0 (incl.)

Solutions

The maintainer was notified of these vulnerabilities and has provided a fix. The fix is included in the latest commits and can be obtained in the following snapshot:

https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/releases/tag/latest

Users are recommended to download the latest GitHub release once it becomes available.

Credits

  • Abhinav Agarwal reported this vulnerability to CISA. finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-401 Missing release of memory after effective lifetime CWE