🛡️ CVE-2022-2120 — dcmtk

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-23 NVD

7.5

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OFFIS DCMTK's (All versions prior to 3.6.7) service class user (SCU) is vulnerable to relative path traversal, allowing an attacker to write DICOM files into arbitrary directories under controlled names. This could allow remote code execution.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-2120 is classified as CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal. Relative path sequences in user input are not neutralised, so requests can climb out of the intended directory.

Affected software

CVE-2022-2120 is recorded against 1 package.

dcmtk (fixed in 3.6.7)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 June 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.cisa.gov
lists.debian.org
www.cisa.gov

CVE-2022-2120 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 7.5

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

CWE CWE-23

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2022-06-24

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
dcmtk	—	3.6.7

References

Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsma-22-174-01

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/06/msg00025.html

Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsma-22-174-01

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