{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31964 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2026-31964 is a medium-severity vulnerability in samtools htslib, published on 18 Mar 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-31964 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-31964 is a medium-severity vulnerability in samtools htslib, published on 18 Mar 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31964 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: samtools htslib. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31964/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31964/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-31964","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31964/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-31964","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31964","GHSA-5w97-85gf-86rm","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31964"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Bioinformatics file library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in HTSlib's CRAM decoder allows attackers to cause a denial of service by providing crafted alignment records.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"htslib","vendor":"htslib"}],"cvss":{"score":6.9,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data using a variety of encodings and compression methods.  While most alignment records store DNA sequence and quality values, the format also allows them to omit this data in certain cases to save space. Due to some quirks of the CRAM format, it is necessary to handle these records carefully as they will actually store data that needs to be consumed and then discarded. Unfortunately the `CONST`, `XPACK` and `XRLE` encodings did not properly implement the interface needed to do this. Trying to decode records with omitted sequence or quality data using these encodings would result in an attempt to write to a NULL pointer. Exploiting this bug causes a NULL pointer dereference. Typically this will cause the program to crash. Versions 1.23.1, 1.22.2 and 1.21.1 include fixes for this issue. There is no workaround for this issue.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"HTSlib CRAM decoder has a NULL Pointer Dereference","id":"CVE-2026-31964","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"HTSlib CRAM reader has out-of-bounds reads due to improper validation of input","id":"CVE-2026-31965"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"HTSlib CRAM reader has heap buffer overflow due to improper validation of input","id":"CVE-2026-31963"},"products":["htslib"],"published":"2026-03-18","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-13845","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-07-10"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-1000206","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-11-17"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"HTSlib CRAM reader has heap buffer overflow due to improper validation of input","id":"CVE-2026-31962","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-18"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"HTSlib CRAM reader has heap buffer overflow due to improper validation of input","id":"CVE-2026-31963","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-18"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"HTSlib CRAM decoder vulnerable to buffer overflow","id":"CVE-2026-31968","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-18"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-36403","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-07-01"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-13843","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-07-10"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-03-18","vendors":["samtools"]},"summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in HTSlib's CRAM decoder allows attackers to cause a denial of service by providing crafted alignment records.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31964/"}