MicroDicom DICOM Heap-based Buffer Overflow

published 2024-03-01 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-19696

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 18%
public exploits: 0; none known

MicroDicom DICOM Viewer versions 2023.3 (Build 9342) and prior are affected by a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of DICOM Viewer. A user must open a malicious DCM file in order to exploit the vulnerability.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

microdicom dicom_viewer 2024.1

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSMA-24-060-01 updated 2024-02-29 cvss 7.8

MicroDicom DICOM Viewer

MicroDicom DICOM Viewer <=2023.3_Build_9342
affected: mitigation “MicroDicom has provided a fix and recommends users upgrade to 2024.1.” microdicom.com

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: 2 y ago (2024-03-04)

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

MicroDicom DICOM Viewer
microdicom dicom_viewer

Classification

Weakness

CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

cisa.gov /news-events/ics-medical-advisories/icsma-24-060-01
us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-22100
NVD CVE-2024-22100

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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.

Summary