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CVE-2023-29408

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-29408 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the TIFF decoder in fedoraproject and golang image processing, where a lack of size limits on compressed tile data allows a small, maliciously crafted image to consume excessive memory and CPU during decoding. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and primarily impacts availability. 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
0.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 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-x92r-3vfx-4cv3medium

Golang TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of compressed tile data

Aug 2, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-29408Moderate

golang.org/x/image/tiff: TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of compressed tile data

Aug 2, 2023

References

go.dev / cl/514897
Patch
go.dev / issue/61582
Issue TrackingPatchVendor 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-2023-1989
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230831-0009
Third Party Advisory