CVE-2025-48797
If a user opens one of these image files that has been specially crafted by an attacker, GIMP can be tricked into making serious memory errors, potentially leading to crashes and causing a heap buffer overflow.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.26%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A flaw was found in GIMP when processing certain TGA image files. If a user opens one of these image files that has been specially crafted by an attacker, GIMP can be tricked into making serious memory errors, potentially leading to crashes and causing a heap buffer overflow.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.3 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.26% probability · 18th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-122
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9162
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9165
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9308
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9309
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9310
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9314
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9315
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9316
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9501
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9569
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48797
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368558
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/11822
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00022.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.