How broadly exploitable is this vulnerability?

Exploitability depends on how an application exposes ICC profile processing. In many cases it may "only" allow denial of service via crashes, but in complex environments or with additional weaknesses, undefined behavior can sometimes be turned into more severe outcomes, including code execution.

What level of access does an attacker need?

An attacker generally needs the ability to supply or influence ICC profiles or related metadata that the iccDEV-based application parses—such as uploading images with embedded profiles, submitting print jobs, or providing documents that contain custom color profiles.

What is the safest general fix pattern?

The safest pattern is to harden the parser by adding comprehensive input validation, explicit null and error checks, and well-defined error handling paths, while ensuring that no assumptions are made about incoming data being well-formed.

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.1)

Null Pointer Dereference & Undefined Behavior (CWE-476, CWE-758) in iccDEV CIccTagXmlFloatNum ParseXml

CVE-2026-24409

Published:

Jan 23, 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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CWE-306

CRITICAL RISK

CRITICAL

(9.8)

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Account Takeover / Loss of Account Control

February 17, 2026

CWE-77;CWE-78

HIGH RISK

HIGH

(7.3)

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

Remote Code Execution on the Server Host

February 17, 2026

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Input Validation and Memory Safety Vulnerabilities

CWE:

CWE-20;CWE-476;CWE-690;CWE-758

Impact:

Denial of Service, Data Manipulation, and Potential Code Execution

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.1)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Input Validation and Memory Safety Vulnerabilities

CWE:

CWE-20;CWE-476;CWE-690;CWE-758

Impact:

Denial of Service, Data Manipulation, and Potential Code Execution

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.1)

CVSS Version:

3.1

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Null Pointer Dereference & Undefined Behavior (CWE-476, CWE-758) in iccDEV CIccTagXmlFloatNum ParseXml

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

Vulnerability Type

Vulnerability Type

Vulnerability Type

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