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CVE-2026-44035 Details

Description

Uncontrolled recursion in DcmDicomDir::moveRecordToTree() in dcmdata/libsrc/dcdicdir.cc of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted DICOMDIR file with a deeply chained sequence of directory records linked through the Offset of Referenced Lower-Level Directory Entity attribute. Any application that opens the DICOMDIR is affected, including dcmgpdir and media viewers built on DCMTK. The issue is fixed in commit ca761f7f3dcaaddaa95be87cf5d736138d7c3a9f.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: securinCVSS-B:5.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/ca761f7f3dcaaddaa95be87cf5d736138d7c3a9f	securin
https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1215	securin

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-674	Uncontrolled Recursion	securin

Affected Products

No affected product data is available for this CVE.

Change History

2 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Oct 8, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Oct 8, 2026	New CVE Received	securin