CVE-2025-15279 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Fontforge
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 82.03%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 31
Description
FontForge GUtils BMP 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 pixels within BMP files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages3 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
2🕵️Threat Intelligence
1💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2025-15279 fontforge: FontForge: Remote Code Execution via heap-based buffer overflow in BMP file parsing↗2025-12-31