Bio-Formats vulnerabilities

2 known vulnerabilities in Bio-Formats from Open Microscopy Environment. 2 are rated high or critical. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.

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• 7.8 High severity

  Bio-Formats: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

  CVE-2026-22187Jan 7, 2026Open Microscopy Environment

  Bio-Formats versions up to and including 8.3.0 perform unsafe Java deserialization of attacker-controlled memoization cache files (.bfmemo) during image processing. The loci.formats.Memoizer class automatically loads and deserializes memo files associated with

• 7.1 High severity

  Bio-Formats: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

  CVE-2026-22186Jan 7, 2026Open Microscopy Environment

  Bio-Formats versions up to and including 8.3.0 contain an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the Leica Microsystems metadata parsing component (e.g., XLEF). The parser uses an insecurely configured DocumentBuilderFactory when processing Leica XML-based