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GHSA-72c8-4jf3-f27p

samtools on other · published in samtools/samtools

Read the advisory on GitHub ↗

Fixed in 1.21.1, 1.22. Dependabot, npm audit and OSV-Scanner probably never will. Find it in your project

Facts

Severity
Medium · CVSS score 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected versions
<= 1.21As entered by the maintainer. Not reviewed.
Fixed in
1.21.1, 1.22
CVE
CVE-2026-31972 · published
GitHub Advisory Database
Not reviewed
OSV.dev
Not present
Other CVEs pointing here
None found in the CVE List

If you use samtools <= 1.21

Upgrade to the fixed version for your release line: 1.21.1, 1.22. Dependabot, npm audit and OSV-Scanner probably never will.

Timeline

  1. 2026-03-18 17:39 UTC

    Published by the maintainers

    Cites CVE-2026-31972

  2. 2026-10-31 12:46 UTC

    First seen by Limbowatch

    not reviewed · not in OSV

  3. Not expected

    Reviewed by GitHub

    GitHub doesn’t review this ecosystem

Machine-readable record: feed/GHSA-72c8-4jf3-f27p.json