CVE-2025-14841

OFFIS DCMTK dcmqrscp dcmqrdbi.cc startMoveRequest null pointer dereference

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Dec 18, 2025
Updated: Feb 24, 2026
Reserved: Dec 17, 2025

Description

A flaw has been found in OFFIS DCMTK up to 3.6.9. The impacted element is the function DcmQueryRetrieveIndexDatabaseHandle::startFindRequest/DcmQueryRetrieveIndexDatabaseHandle::startMoveRequest in the library dcmqrdb/libsrc/dcmqrdbi.cc of the component dcmqrscp. This manipulation causes null pointer dereference. The attack requires local access. Upgrading to version 3.7.0 is sufficient to resolve this issue. Patch name: ffb1a4a37d2c876e3feeb31df4930f2aed7fa030. You should upgrade the affected component.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.8 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P	VulDB
3.1	3.3 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
3.0	3.3 Low	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
2.0	1.7 Low	AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
CWE-404 Denial of Service

Affected Products

Product	Versions
DCMTKOFFIS	3.6.0Affected 3.6.1Affected 3.6.2Affected 3.6.3Affected 3.6.4Affected 3.6.5Affected 3.6.6Affected 3.6.7Affected 3.6.8Affected 3.6.9Affected 3.7.0Not affected

References

VDB-337004 | OFFIS DCMTK dcmqrscp dcmqrdbi.cc startMoveRequest null pointer dereferencevdb-entrytechnical-description
VDB-337004 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #714605 | OFFIS DCMTK 3.6.9 Denial of Servicethird-party-advisory
Submit #714634 | OFFIS DCMTK 3.6.9 Denial of Service (Duplicate)third-party-advisory
https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1183issue-tracking
https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/ffb1a4a37d2c876e3feeb31df4930f2aed7fa030patch
https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/releases/tag/DCMTK-3.7.0patch

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