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Fencer Vulns
low 3.3

CVE-2025-14841 json

OFFIS DCMTK dcmqrscp dcmqrdbi.cc startMoveRequest null pointer dereference

published 2025-12-18 10 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-204021

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw has been found in OFFIS DCMTK up to 3.6.9. The impacted element is the function DcmQueryRetrieveIndexDatabaseHandle::startFindRequest/DcmQueryRetrieveIndexDatabaseHandle::startMoveRequest in the library dcmqrdb/libsrc/dcmqrdbi.cc of the component dcmqrscp. This manipulation causes null pointer dereference. The attack requires local access. Upgrading to version 3.7.0 is sufficient to resolve this issue. Patch name: ffb1a4a37d2c876e3feeb31df4930f2aed7fa030. You should upgrade the affected component.

Patch / fix

  • OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0
  • dcmtk Debian 12 3.6.7-9~deb12u4
  • dcmtk Debian 13 3.6.9-5+deb13u1
  • dcmtk Debian 14 3.7.0+really3.7.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-14841

  • dcmtk openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.7.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10006-1

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-2025-14841 updated cvss 5.5

DCMTK: NULL pointer dereference in dcmqrscp via invalid messages

  • 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 SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
10 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 4.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
CNA 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CNA 3.0 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CNA 2.0 1.7 AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
CNA 4.0 1.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CNA 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CNA 2.0 1.7 AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • OFFIS DCMTK

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

References

Sources

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