CVE-2025-48798 | Gimp: multiple use after free in xcf parser

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.

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-2025-48798 is rated Low Risk (37.7/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.08%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-48798

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 2026-03-23 0.01% 0.08% +0.07%
2 2025-05-28 — 0.01% —

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-48798

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-2025-48798

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-48798

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-48798 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-2025-48798
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48798
suse high CVE-2025-48798 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-2025-48798/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-48798 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-2025-48798

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-48798

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-48798

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