CVE-2025-15279Heap-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

CVEListV5fontforge/fontforge387146a241b36bcdf6ce229c5a3fe367ed3854a1
NVDfontforge/fontforge20251009

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2025-15279: FontForge GUtils BMP File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2025-12-31
GHSA
GHSA-cgxg-jvf2-h7v5: FontForge GUtils BMP File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2025-12-31

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
fontforge: FontForge: Remote Code Execution via heap-based buffer overflow in BMP file parsing2025-12-31
Debian
CVE-2025-15279: fontforge - FontForge GUtils BMP File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Executi...2025

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-15279 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2025-15279 fontforge: FontForge: Remote Code Execution via heap-based buffer overflow in BMP file parsing2025-12-31
CVE-2025-15279 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow | cvebase