CVE-2026-48029

⚠️ high

Summary

libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Versions 1.19.0 through 1.21.2 have a heap OOB read in ImageItem_Grid::decode_grid_tile via irot-induced tile-coordinate underflow. Version 1.22.0 fixes the issue.

CVSS Score

7.1

High

EPSS Score

0.3

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-07-22

First Seen: 2026-07-23

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Moderate Risk - more severe than 52.3% of all 349,016 vulnerabilities in our database.

#166,349

Above average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jul 22, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

Poc

Proof-of-concept available

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-08-06

Source NVD 🔗

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

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-125 CWE-191

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
struktur	libheif	Affected	> 1.19.0 < 1.22.0

🔗 References 2

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/e523ec0...

Patch

https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/security/advis...

Mitigation Vendor Advisory Exploit

🔗 Related CVEs 6

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CVE-2026-47714	🔶 medium	6.1	0.1	libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. In versions 1.21.2 and prior, the inline mask parsing code i...	2026-07-21
CVE-2026-47178	🔶 medium	6.1	0.2	libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. In versions 1.19.0 through 1.21.2, a crafted HEIF file (unco...	2026-07-21
CVE-2026-47247	⚠️ high	7.5	0.5	libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Prior to version 1.22.0, two bugs in libheif chain to leak p...	2026-07-21
CVE-2026-47251	🔶 medium	6.1	0.2	libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. The fix for CVE-2026-3949 (commit `b97c8b5`, PR #1712) intro...	2026-07-21
CVE-2026-47254	🔶 medium	6.1	0.2	libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Prior to version 1.22.0, `Track::init_sample_timing_table()`...	2026-07-21
CVE-2026-47709	🔶 medium	5.5	0.2	libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Versions prior to 1.22.0 crashes in the public C API `heif_i...	2026-07-21

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