CVE-2025-15275Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Fontforge

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 31

Description

FontForge SFD File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of FontForge. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of SFD files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages6 packages

CVEListV5fontforge/fontforgeaca4f524c6cb14cdc7bc4cd493492a33f5154797
NVDfontforge/fontforge2025-11-17

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-6465-93fg-6pfr: FontForge SFD File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2025-12-31
OSV
CVE-2025-15275: FontForge SFD File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2025-12-31

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
fontforge: FontForge: Arbitrary code execution via SFD file parsing buffer overflow2025-12-31
Debian
CVE-2025-15275: fontforge - FontForge SFD File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vuln...2025
Microsoft
Samba before 4.7.3 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging failure of the server to clear allocated heap memory.2017-11-14

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-15275 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2025-15275 fontforge: FontForge: Arbitrary code execution via SFD file parsing buffer overflow2025-12-31
CVE-2025-15275 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow | cvebase