🛡️ CVE-2025-53618 — grassroots-dicom

🟠 CVSS 7.4 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-119 NVD

7.4

CVSS Score

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Description

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

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, 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-2025-53618 is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53618 is recorded against 1 package.

grassroots-dicom

Timeline and source

Published on 16 December 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

talosintelligence.com

CVE-2025-53618 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 7.4

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

CWE CWE-119

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2025-12-16

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
grassroots-dicom	—	—

References

Third Party Advisory https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2210

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