CVE-2025-53618

critical

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the JPEGBITSCodec::InternalCode functionality of Grassroot DICOM 3.024.

Vendor / product: Malaterre — grassroots dicom

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the JPEGBITSCodec::InternalCode functionality of Grassroot DICOM 3.024. A specially crafted DICOM file can lead to an information leak. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.The function `grayscale_convert` is called based of the value of the malicious DICOM file specifying the intended interpretation of the image pixel data

CVSS

9.1

9.1 (CVSS v3.1)

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

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2025-12-16 22:15

Modified: 2026-10-13 11:10

NVD status: Analyzed

Last synced 2 days ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 07:06 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

malaterre / grassroots_dicom 3.0.24

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 CWE-125

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2210 talos-cna@cisco.com

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 07:06 UTC · record ↗

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