๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-42500

MEDIUM 5.3

Panic when reading out of bound palette index in golang.org/x/image/bmp

CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

Decoding a paletted BMP file with an out-of-range palette index results in a panic when accessing pixels in the invalid image.

Vendor golang.org/x/image
Product golang.org/x/image/bmp
Published May 29, 2026
Last Updated May 29, 2026
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Affected Versions

golang.org/x/image / golang.org/x/image/bmp
0 < 0.41.0

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
go.dev: https://go.dev/issue/79576 groups.google.com: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/uhYX90BlBvI go.dev: https://go.dev/cl/781500 pkg.go.dev: https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-5031