VulnerabilityDeferred
CVE-2025-48798
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 use-after-free issues.
HIGH 7.3EPSS 0.23%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.23%). 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 XCF 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 use-after-free issues.
- 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
- 0.23% probability · 14th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- 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-2025-48798
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368557
- 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.