CVE-2025-61144: libtiff

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-61144 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in libtiff. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 23-02-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 25-02-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

libtiff up to v4.7.1 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the readSeparateStripsIntoBuffer function.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.