Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2763

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2012-2763

CWE Category CWE-120

Published Date Jul 12, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

88.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-2763: Buffer overflow in the readstr_upto function in plug-ins/script-fu/tinyscheme/scheme.c in GIMP 2.6.12 and earlier, and possibly 2.6.13, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a command to the script-fu server.

Impacted Vendors

gimp 1

gnu 1

Reference Links

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-6&id=744f7a4a2b5acb8b531a6f5dd8744ebb95348fc2 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00043.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50737 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/31/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/01/1 http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/advisories/scriptfu-buffer-overflow-GIMP-2.6.html https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679215 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-6&id=744f7a4a2b5acb8b531a6f5dd8744ebb95348fc2 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00043.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50737 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/31/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/01/1 http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/advisories/scriptfu-buffer-overflow-GIMP-2.6.html https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679215

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2763 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18956

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18973

View Code

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 12, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.