Samtools
12 CVEs across 3 Samtools products. Browse Samtools vulnerabilities, severities, and proof-of-concept exploits.
Samtools products with known CVEs
Samtools CVEs — newest first| CVE | Severity | Score | Published | Summary |
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CVE-2026-31973 | High | 7.5 | 2026-03-18 | SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write info… |
CVE-2026-31972 | Critical | 9.8 | 2026-03-18 | SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. The `mpileup` command outputs DNA sequences that have been aligned aga… |
CVE-2026-31971 | High | 8.1 | 2026-03-18 | 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 o… |
CVE-2026-31970 | High | 8.1 | 2026-03-18 | HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. GZI files are used to index block-compressed GZIP [BGZF] files. In the GZI loading fu… |
CVE-2026-31969 | High | 8.1 | 2026-03-18 | 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 o… |
CVE-2026-31968 | High | 8.1 | 2026-03-18 | 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 o… |
CVE-2026-31967 | Critical | 9.1 | 2026-03-18 | HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. In the `cram_dec… |
CVE-2026-31966 | Critical | 9.1 | 2026-03-18 | HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. As one method of… |
CVE-2026-31965 | High | 8.2 | 2026-03-18 | HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. In the `cram_dec… |
CVE-2026-31964 | High | 7.5 | 2026-03-18 | 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 o… |
CVE-2026-31963 | High | 8.1 | 2026-03-18 | HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. As one method of… |
CVE-2026-31962 | High | 8.8 | 2026-03-18 | HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. While most align… |
CVE-2022-21126 | High | 7.3 | 2022-11-29 | The package com.github.samtools:htsjdk before 3.0.1 are vulnerable to Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions due to the createTempDi… |