CVE-2026-42798

MEDIUMNVD 4.04.0—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 4.0 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-04-30. NVD baseline CVSS 4.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
4.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 4.0Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

Little CMS (lcms2) 2.16 through 2.18 before 2.19 has an integer overflow in ParseCube in cmscgats.c.

CVSS v3
4.0
EG Score
4.0(medium)
EG Risk
18(Track)
EG Risk 18/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity40% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
3%
KEV
Not listed

Published

April 30, 2026

Last Modified

April 30, 2026

References (3)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-42798(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuliblcms2-utils (2.17-1ubuntu0.2) @ resolute2026-06-14ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 32× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 114 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-07-27 14:13 UTCEPSS rescore
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  7. 2026-07-23 03:11 UTCEG score recompute
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  11. 2026-07-19 19:48 UTCOSV refresh
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  25. 2026-06-14 09:22 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-06-14 09:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-06-13 23:00 UTCEPSS rescore
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  30. 2026-06-12 06:48 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-06-12 06:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-06-11 14:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  33. 2026-06-11 05:27 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-06-11 05:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-06-10 22:18 UTCEPSS rescore
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  38. 2026-06-10 01:12 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-06-10 01:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-06-08 23:50 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-06-08 23:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-06-08 14:17 UTCEPSS rescore
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  44. 2026-06-07 19:10 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-06-07 19:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-06-07 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore
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  48. 2026-06-06 17:48 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-06-06 17:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-06-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
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  53. 2026-06-05 16:23 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-06-05 16:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-06-05 06:10 UTCEPSS rescore
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  57. 2026-06-04 15:01 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-06-04 15:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  61. 2026-06-03 13:39 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-06-03 13:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-06-02 20:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  64. 2026-06-02 12:06 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-06-02 12:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  66. 2026-06-01 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
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  68. 2026-06-01 10:44 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-42798?
CVE-2026-42798 is a medium vulnerability published on April 30, 2026. Little CMS (lcms2) 2.16 through 2.18 before 2.19 has an integer overflow in ParseCube in cmscgats.c.
When was CVE-2026-42798 disclosed?
CVE-2026-42798 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on April 30, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-42798 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-42798 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 97.1% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-42798?
CVE-2026-42798 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.0 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-42798?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-42798, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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