Is this vulnerability remotely exploitable?

It can be, depending on how the application exposes iccDEV. If an attacker can cause a vulnerable application or service to parse a crafted ICC profile (for example via file upload, image submission, or document ingestion), exploitation may occur without local access to the host.

What level of access does an attacker need to exploit this issue?

The attacker typically only needs the ability to supply or influence ICC color profiles or XML profile content that the application processes. No direct shell or local account is required if the application accepts and processes external content.

What is the safest general fix pattern for developers?

The most robust fix pattern is to implement strict bounds checking and validation around all buffer allocations and writes in the profile parsing logic, rejecting malformed or inconsistent inputs early. Adopting safer container types and eliminating unchecked pointer arithmetic significantly reduces the risk of similar heap overflows.

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(8.8)

Heap Buffer Overflow (CWE-787) in iccDEV CIccProfileXml::ParseBasic() Color Profile Parsing

CVE-2026-22046

Published:

Jan 7, 2026

Status:

Analyzed

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

NDV

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CRITICAL RISK

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Account Takeover / Loss of Account Control

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CWE-77;CWE-78

HIGH RISK

HIGH

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Remote Code Execution on the Server Host

February 17, 2026

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Memory Corruption / Heap Buffer Overflow

CWE:

CWE-20;CWE-130;CWE-252;CWE-843;CWE-787

Impact:

Potential Remote Code Execution and Application Crash

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(8.8)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Memory Corruption / Heap Buffer Overflow

CWE:

CWE-20;CWE-130;CWE-252;CWE-843;CWE-787

Impact:

Potential Remote Code Execution and Application Crash

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(8.8)

CVSS Version:

3.1

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Heap Buffer Overflow (CWE-787) in iccDEV CIccProfileXml::ParseBasic() Color Profile Parsing

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

Recent Vulnerabilities

CRITICAL RISK

CRITICAL

(9.8)

Missing Authentication for Forgot-Password Email Change API (CWE-306)

HIGH RISK

HIGH

(7.3)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in node-sonos-http-api TTS Provider for macOS

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