What is GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g?

GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Go Images vulnerable to an out-of-memory error via a crafted TIFF file

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g cover?

GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-33809. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g?

GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g?

GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g affects 1 product, including: go/golang.org/x/image:\u003c 0.38.0.

GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2gMediumCVSS 5.3

Go Images vulnerable to an out-of-memory error via a crafted TIFF file

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

March 25, 2026

Last Modified

April 24, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-33809 →

📋 Description

A maliciously crafted TIFF file can cause image decoding to attempt to allocate up 4GiB of memory, causing either excessive resource consumption or an out-of-memory error.

🎯 Affected products1

go/golang.org/x/image:< 0.38.0

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33809
https://go.dev/cl/757660
https://go.dev/issue/78267
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4815
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g