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CVE-2026-42500 (GCVE-0-2026-42500)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-29 18:36 – Updated: 2026-05-29 19:51
VLAI
Title
Panic when reading out of bound palette index in golang.org/x/image/bmp
Summary
Decoding a paletted BMP file with an out-of-range palette index results in a panic when accessing pixels in the invalid image.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-29 19:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/bmp Affected: 0 , < 0.41.0 (semver)
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