CISA also recommends users take the following measures to protect themselves from social engineering attacks:
Do not click web links or open attachments in unsolicited email messages.
Refer to Recognizing and Avoiding Email Scams for more information on avoiding email scams.
Refer to Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks for more information on social engineering attacks.
No known public exploitation specifically targeting this vulnerability has been reported to CISA at this time.
Credit: Michael Heinzl
From CISA's machine-readable CSAF 2.0 advisory (JSON).
| CVE | Weakness | CVSS v3 | Details |
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| CVE-2025-5943 | CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write | 8.8 High |
DICOM Viewer suffers from an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Remote attackers are able to exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code on affected installations of DICOM Viewer. User interaction is required to exploit the vulnerability in that the user must either visit a malicious website or open a malicious DICOM file locally. Vendor fix: MicroDicom recommends users update DICOM Viewer to version 2025.3 or later. ↗ Affected, fixed & timelineAffected:
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Scores and weakness types are as CISA or the republishing vendor stated them in this advisory; the linked CVE pages carry the independently enriched CVSS and SSVC assessments.
No coverage found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.
| CVE | CVSS | Affected |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-5943 | 8.6 High | MicroDicom DICOM Viewer MicroDicom DICOM Viewer suffers from an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Remote attackers are able to exploit this issue to potentially execute a… |
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No KEV-catalogued vendors are named in this publication.