CVE-2026-52490

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-24. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-65144 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

An issue in libtiff 85f2ac8e0b01cb7db2bbecf4a3b891bdbef67938 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the process_command_opts() function in tools/tiffcrop.c

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
54th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 24, 2026

Last Modified

October 12, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 28, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

tiffcrop: -S cols×rows check can be bypassed via unsigned 32-bit overflow (#846) · Issues · libtiff / libtiff · GitLab

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/work_items/846

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatlibtiff-0:4.0.9-39.el8_102026-09-21redhat
redhatlibtiff-main-4.7.2-2.hum12026-08-11redhat

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.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tiff4.5.0-6 ... 4.7.2-1 (23 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tiff4.7.0-3 ... 4.7.2-1 (10 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
tiff4.7.0-3 ... 4.7.1-3 (6 versions)
  • every version up to 4.7.2-1: fixed in 4.7.2-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 28× in last 7d / 149× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 611 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 511 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 54th percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 00:54 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 00:54 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-02 00:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 54th percentile
  6. 2026-11-01 00:05 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-11-01 00:05 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-01 00:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 54th percentile
  10. 2026-10-30 23:13 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-30 23:13 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-30 23:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 54th percentile
  14. 2026-10-29 22:23 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-29 22:23 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-29 22:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 54th percentile
  18. 2026-10-28 21:34 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-28 21:34 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-28 21:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  22. 2026-10-27 20:43 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-27 20:43 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-27 20:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
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  1. 2026-10-26 19:53 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-26 19:53 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-26 19:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  5. 2026-10-25 16:44 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-25 16:44 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-25 16:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 14:21 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  11. 2026-10-24 15:54 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-24 15:54 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-24 15:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  15. 2026-10-23 15:03 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-23 15:03 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-23 15:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  19. 2026-10-22 14:10 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-22 14:10 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-22 14:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  23. 2026-10-21 13:17 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-21 13:17 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-21 13:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  27. 2026-10-20 12:17 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-20 12:17 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-20 12:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  30. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  31. 2026-10-19 11:25 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-19 11:25 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-19 11:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  34. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  35. 2026-10-18 09:01 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-18 09:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  37. 2026-10-18 03:32 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  39. 2026-10-17 07:46 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-17 07:46 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-17 07:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  42. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  43. 2026-10-16 06:55 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-16 06:55 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-16 06:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  46. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  47. 2026-10-15 05:36 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-10-15 05:36 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-15 05:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  50. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  51. 2026-10-14 01:16 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-10-14 01:16 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-14 01:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  54. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  55. 2026-10-12 21:25 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-10-12 21:25 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-12 21:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  58. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  59. 2026-10-12 15:58 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-10-12 07:07 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-12 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  62. 2026-10-11 19:41 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-10-11 16:56 UTCEG score recompute
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  65. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  66. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  67. 2026-10-10 13:18 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-10-10 13:18 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-10-10 13:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  70. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  71. 2026-10-09 05:03 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-10-09 05:03 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-09 05:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6qm2-q5vx-rh4c · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  74. 2026-10-08 17:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  75. 2026-10-08 08:30 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-52490?
CVE-2026-52490 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 24, 2026. An issue in libtiff 85f2ac8e0b01cb7db2bbecf4a3b891bdbef67938 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the process_command_opts() function in tools/tiffcrop.c
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-52490 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-52490 was published on August 24, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 12, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-52490 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-52490 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (54th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-52490?
CVE-2026-52490 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-52490?
A fix for CVE-2026-52490 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-52490 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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