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GHSA-x86f-q6fj-cm43

samtools on other · published in samtools/samtools

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Fixed in 1.21.1, 1.22.2, 1.23.1. 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:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected versions
>= 1.17, <= 1.21, 1.22, 1.22.1, 1.23As entered by the maintainer. Not reviewed. Scanners can’t read this range. How to fix it
Fixed in
1.21.1, 1.22.2, 1.23.1
CVE
CVE-2026-31973 · published
GitHub Advisory Database
Not reviewed
OSV.dev
Not present
Other CVEs pointing here
None found in the CVE List

If you use samtools >= 1.17, <= 1.21, 1.22, 1.22.1, 1.23

Upgrade to the fixed version for your release line: 1.21.1, 1.22.2, 1.23.1. Dependabot, npm audit and OSV-Scanner probably never will.

Timeline

  1. 2026-03-18 17:38 UTC

    Published by the maintainers

    Cites CVE-2026-31973

  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-x86f-q6fj-cm43.json