CVE-2025-50949

FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.

Published: 2025-10-23 Last update: 2025-10-27 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-50949 is rated Low Risk (29.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.03%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-50949

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 2026-03-21 0.07% 0.03% -0.03%
2 2026-02-22 0.03% 0.07% +0.04%
3 2025-10-24 — 0.03% —

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-50949

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
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:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
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:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.8 3.6 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-50949

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-50949

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-50949 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (fontforge), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-50949
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-50949
suse low CVE-2025-50949 severity low: SUSE including 22 source package names (2.2.1-5.25:libcurl4-8.14.1-slfo.1.1_2.1, 2.2.1-5.37:curl-8.14.1-slfo.1.1_2.1, …), 106 product×package rows across 41 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (41 product lines)): Fixed 103, First Fixed 3. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-50949/
ubuntu low CVE-2025-50949 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (fontforge), 8 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): needed 6, ignored 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-50949

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-50949

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
fontforge fontforge 2023-01-01 cpe:2.3:a:fontforge:fontforge:2023-01-01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-50949

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