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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-2120 json

OFFIS DCMTK Path Traversal

published 2022-06-24 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-34406

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • OFFIS DCMTK 3.6.7
  • dcmtk Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.6.7-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2120

  • dcmtk Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • dcmtk Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • dcmtk Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • dcmtk Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 3.6.6-5ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2120

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • dcmtk Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 3.6.7-bp154.2.3.1
  • orthanc-webviewer Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 2.8-bp154.2.3.1
  • gdcm Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 3.0.19-bp154.2.5.1
  • orthanc Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 1.11.2-bp154.2.3.1
  • orthanc-gdcm Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 1.5-bp154.2.3.1
  • orthanc-webviewer Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.3 2.8-bp153.2.3.1
  • gdcm Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.3 3.0.19-bp153.2.8.1
  • orthanc Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.3 1.11.2-bp153.2.13.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2023:0108-1openSUSE-SU-2022:10145-1openSUSE-SU-2022:10144-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-2120 updated cvss 7.5

dcmtk: relative path traversal

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSMA-22-174-01 updated cvss 7.5

OFFIS DCMTK

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

3.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • OFFIS DCMTK

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.