CVE-2024-23913Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in Merge DICOM Toolkit C/C++ on Windows. When deprecated MC_XML_To_Message() function is…
- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 0.19%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 91% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in Merge DICOM Toolkit C/C++ on Windows. When deprecated MC_XML_To_Message() function is used to read a malformed DICOM XML file, it might result in memory access violation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Nozomi
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NozomiCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Affected products
Merative · Merge DICOM Toolkit C/C++
- affected v5.0.0 – ≤ v5.17.0
What to do
Solution: The issue is resolved in Merge DICOM Toolkit 5.18.0 release.
Workaround: As a temporary solution, until a patch is released, it is highly recommended to provide to the MC_XML_To_Message() function only trusted XML files.
References
References1
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-21343 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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