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CVE-2026-110596: quirc 0 through 1.2

CVE-2026-110596. CVSS 3.1 base score 5.5 (GitHub Advisory Database).

Affected technology

quirc · 0 through 1.2
dlbeer

Description’s affected range: through 1.2

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 4.0): Local · No privileges required · Passive user interaction

What an attacker can do

Attackers can arrange three finder patterns producing a near-degenerate perspective transform, causing billions of region_code() iterations that exhaust CPU in applications decoding attacker-supplied QR images. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 6.8/10) rates confidentiality and integrity impact as none; availability impact as high.

Published 14-Oct-2026 15:59 UTC

CWE: CWE-834
CCR priority: 22.0 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 5.5 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H · GitHub Advisory Database
KEV: no

Provenance

GitHub Advisory Database · Source record · observed 2026-10-14 16:01:16.619248+00:00 UTC
NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-14 15:56:36.793806+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-110596.html