High
OFFIS DCMTK Path Traversal
Type: advisorySources: OSV
OFFIS DCMTK's (All versions prior to 3.6.7) service class user (SCU) is vulnerable to relative path traversal, allowing an attacker to write DICOM files into arbitrary directories under controlled names. This could allow remote code execution.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-2120
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 17:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
OFFIS DCMTK's (All versions prior to 3.6.7) service class user (SCU) is vulnerable to relative path traversal, allowing an attacker to write DICOM files into arbitrary directories under controlled names. This could allow remote code execution.
osv:CVE-2022-2120
Complete source record
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"DCMTK-3.6.1_20120831",
"DCMTK-3.6.1_20120515",
"DCMTK-3.6.1_20120222",
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"DCMTK-3.6.0",
"DCMTK-3.5.4",
"DCMTK-3.5.3",
"DCMTK-3.5.2a",
"DCMTK-3.5.2",
"DCMTK-3.5.1",
"DCMTK-3.5.0",
"DCMTK-3.4.2",
"DCMTK-3.4.1",
"DCMTK-3.4.0",
"DCMTK-3.3.1",
"DCMTK-3.3.0",
"DCMTK-3.2.1",
"DCMTK-3.2.0",
"DCMTK-3.1.2",
"DCMTK-3.1.1",
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:30.790333430Z",
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"references": [
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2120",
"https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsma-22-174-01"
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