Vulnerability Report

CVE-2026-6384

Title: Buffer Overflow in GIMP

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2026-6384.

CWE Category CWE-120

Published Date Apr 15, 2026

Modified Date Jul 15, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.3 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.26%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-6384: A flaw was found in gimp. This buffer overflow vulnerability in the GIF image loading component's `ReadJeffsImage` function allows an attacker to write beyond an allocated buffer by processing a specially crafted GIF file. This can lead to a denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution.

Impacted Vendors

gimp 1

gnu 1

Reference Links

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6384 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458749

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c

Severity HIGH

7.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns