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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2022-40090 json

An issue was discovered in function TIFFReadDirectory libtiff before 4.4.0 allows attackers to cause...

published 2023-08-22 3 y ago modified 2026-07-18 3 mo ago also EUVD-2022-43409 , JLSEC-2025-311

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in function TIFFReadDirectory libtiff before 4.4.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted TIFF file.

Patch / fix

  • julia Libtiff_jll 4.4.0+0
  • libtiff libtiff 4.4.0
  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.5.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-40090

  • tiff Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.11
  • tiff Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.7
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm11
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm14
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40090

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

  • libtiff RHEL 9 4.4.0-12.el9
  • libtiff-tools RHEL 9 4.4.0-12.el9

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:2289

  • tiff SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1 +20 more 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
  • tiff SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 4.0.9-44.74.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:4869-1SUSE-SU-2023:4736-1

  • libtiff AlmaLinux 9 4.4.0-12.el9
  • libtiff-tools AlmaLinux 9 4.4.0-12.el9

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:2289

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-2022-40090 updated cvss 6.5

libtiff: infinite loop via a crafted TIFF file

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libtiff, libtiff-tools, compat-libtiff3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libtiff, libtiff-tools, compat-libtiff3
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Applications that do not parse files from untrusted or malicious sources will not be affected by this vulnerability.”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) libtiff 4.4.0-12.el9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) libtiff-tools 4.4.0-12.el9
    fixed: vendor fix “Applications that do not parse files from untrusted or malicious sources will not be affected by this vulnerability.” RHSA-2024:2289

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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/455 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Libtiff_jll
<4.4.0+0
4.4.0+0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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