CVE-2026-22695

LIBPNG has a heap buffer over-read in png_image_read_direct_scaled (regression from CVE-2025-65018 fix)

CVSS 6.1 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-125

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.1EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

12 Jan 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. From 1.6.51 to 1.6.53, there is a heap buffer over-read in the libpng simplified API function png_image_finish_read when processing interlaced 16-bit PNGs with 8-bit output format and non-minimal row stride. This is a regression introduced by the fix for CVE-2025-65018. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.54.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Affected products

pnggroup · libpng

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References

https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/commit/218612ddd6b17944e21eda56caf8b4bf7779d1ea https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/commit/e4f7ad4ea2 https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/778 https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/security/advisories/GHSA-mmq5-27w3-rxpp