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The vendor confirms that they will \"be removing the deprecated area in libvips 8.19\".", "aliases": [ { "alias": "CVE-2026-6491" } ], "fixed_packages": [], "affected_packages": [], "references": [ { "reference_url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-6491", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "6e-05", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.00352", "published_at": "2026-06-14T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "6e-05", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.00346", "published_at": "2026-06-13T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "6e-05", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.00348", "published_at": "2026-06-12T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "6e-05", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.00349", "published_at": "2026-06-11T12:55:00Z" } ], "url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-6491" }, { "reference_url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-6491", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", 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