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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2026-64644 json

Next.js: Denial of Service in the Image Optimization API using SVGs

published 2026-07-21 3 mo ago modified 2026-10-24 15 d ago also EUVD-2026-49388 , GHSA-q8wf-6r8g-63ch

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 52%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. In versions 15.5.0 through 15.5.20 and 16.0.0 through 16.2.10, when self-hosting Next.js with the default image loader, the Image Optimization API can optimize remotely hosted images if configured (not enabled by default). If those images contain malicious content, they can cause CPU exhaustion in /_next/image endpoints.Only config.images.remotePatterns is affected, and just the patterns in that array, whereas config.images.unoptimized: true, config.images.loader: 'custom', and Vercel are not impacted. This issue has been fixed in versions 15.5.21 and 16.2.11.

Patch / fix

  • npm next 15.5.21, 16.2.11
  • vercel next.js 15.5.21, 16.2.11

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-2026-64644 updated cvss 7.5

next: Next.js: Denial of Service via malicious image optimization

  • Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 3.2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:54435
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, firefox 140.13.0-1.el10_2
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird, firefox 140.13.0-1.el10_2, thunderbird 140.12.0-1.el10_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 firefox, firefox-x11, thunderbird, firefox 140.13.0-1.el10_2, thunderbird 140.12.0-1.el10_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 firefox 140.13.0-1.el10_2, thunderbird 140.12.0-1.el10_2
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9 Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer rhtas/rekor-search-ui-rhel9 Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 2 next 15.5.18
    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
3 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/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
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm next
>=15.5.0, <15.5.21
>=16.0.0, <16.2.11
15.5.21
16.2.11

Affected products

  • vercel next.js

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Technology feeds

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.

The maintainers of vercel/next.js published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.