How broadly exploitable is this vulnerability?

Exploitability depends heavily on how and where ICC profiles are consumed. In many deployments it will manifest primarily as a denial-of-service risk when malicious profiles cause crashes. In tightly constrained or sandboxed environments, impact is typically limited, whereas native applications with direct access to memory and limited isolation may face higher-risk scenarios.

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

An attacker generally needs the ability to supply or influence ICC profile data, such as uploading images that embed custom profiles, submitting profile files directly, or injecting malformed metadata into processing pipelines. No special privileges are usually required beyond the ability to have that data parsed by an iccDEV-linked component.

What is the safest general fix pattern for developers?

The most robust fix pattern combines strict validation of all externally influenced profile data, comprehensive null and bounds checking on every parsing step, and clear error handling that stops processing on any inconsistency. Refactoring parsing logic to follow a fail-fast, defensive design—where assumptions are minimized and all invariants are explicitly checked—helps eliminate undefined behavior and null dereferences.

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.1)

Input Validation and Null Pointer Dereference (CWE-20/CWE-476) in iccDEV CIccProfileXml::ParseBasic

CVE-2026-24410

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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Remote Code Execution on the Server Host

February 17, 2026

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Input Validation and Memory Safety

CWE:

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

Impact:

Denial of Service, Data Manipulation, and Potential Code Execution

Severity:

HIGH RISK

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CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Input Validation and Memory Safety

CWE:

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

Impact:

Denial of Service, Data Manipulation, and Potential Code Execution

Severity:

HIGH RISK

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CVSS Version:

3.1

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Input Validation and Null Pointer Dereference (CWE-20/CWE-476) in iccDEV CIccProfileXml::ParseBasic

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

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