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CVE-2023-29407

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-29407 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting fedoraproject and golang image libraries, where a specially crafted tiled image with a zero height and large width can lead to excessive CPU consumption during decoding. Rated Medium (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and can result in high availability impact (A:H) if exploited. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:golang:image:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0080 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: golang.org/x/imageFixed in: 0.10.0
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: acm-cluster-templates-operator-container

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-j3p8-6mrq-6g7hmedium

Golang TIFF decoder vulnerable to excessive CPU consumption

Aug 2, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-29407Moderate

golang.org/x/image/tiff: excessive CPU consumption in decoding

Aug 2, 2023

References

go.dev / cl/514897
Patch
go.dev / issue/61581
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/KO54NBDUJXKAZNGCFOEYL2LKK2RQP6K6
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/XWH6Q7NVM4MV3GWFEU4PA67AWZHVFJQ2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/XZTEP6JYILRBNDTNWTEQ5D4QUUVQBESK
pkg.go.dev / vuln/GO-2023-1990
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230831-0009
Third Party Advisory