CVE-2025-48797 | Gimp: multiple heap buffer overflows in tga parser

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.

Published: 2025-05-27 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-48797 is rated Low Risk (32.3/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.19%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-48797

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.08% 0.19% +0.10%
2 2026-03-23 0.01% 0.08% +0.07%
3 2025-05-28 — 0.01% —

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-48797

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.3 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.3 5.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-48797

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-48797

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-48797 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (gimp), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-48797
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48797
suse high CVE-2025-48797 severity important: SUSE including 28 source package names (gimp-2.10.30-150400.3.20.1, gimp-2.8.22-1.el7_9.2, …), 50 product×package rows across 8 product lines (SUSE Liberty Linux 7 LTSS, SUSE Liberty Linux 8, … (8 product lines)): Fixed 50. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48797/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-48797 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gimp), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): released 6, not-affected 2, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-48797

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-48797

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-48797

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