CVE-2026-56445 (GCVE-0-2026-56445)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 20:46 – Updated: 2026-06-26 13:05
VLAI
Title
pydicom pynetdicom Library Path Traversal
Summary
The qrscp application's C-STORE handler uses a specific instance from attacker-supplied DICOM datasets directly in os.path.join() without sanitization, allowing file writes to arbitrary paths.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pydicom pynetdicom Library Affected: 1.0.0 , ≤ 3.0.4 (custom)
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Date Public
2026-06-25 17:00
Credits
Simon Weber and Volker Schönefeld of Machine Spirits UG reported this vulnerability to CISA.
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