{"id":"CVE-2026-44035","title":"Uncontrolled recursion in DcmDicomDir::moveRecordToTree() in dcmdata/libsrc/dcdicdir.cc of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted DICOMDIR file with a deeply c…","summary":"Uncontrolled recursion in DcmDicomDir::moveRecordToTree() in dcmdata/libsrc/dcdicdir.cc of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted DICOMDIR file with a deeply c…","severity":"medium","cvss":5.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-674"],"vendor":"OFFIS","product":"DCMTK","affected":["DCMTK 3.7.0"],"published":"2026-10-08","updated":"2026-10-08","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-08T15:17:53.967","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44035","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/ca761f7f3dcaaddaa95be87cf5d736138d7c3a9f","label":"33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9c"},{"url":"https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1215","label":"33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9c"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-10-08T14:08:51.179526Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-10-08T13:42:55.145Z","slug":"CVE-2026-44035","body":"## Overview\n\nUncontrolled recursion in DcmDicomDir::moveRecordToTree() in dcmdata/libsrc/dcdicdir.cc of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted DICOMDIR file with a deeply chained sequence of directory records linked through the Offset of Referenced Lower-Level Directory Entity attribute. Any application that opens the DICOMDIR is affected, including dcmgpdir and media viewers built on DCMTK. The issue is fixed in commit ca761f7f3dcaaddaa95be87cf5d736138d7c3a9f.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":30,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":30.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}