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medium 6.2

CVE-2025-31179 json

Gnuplot: gnuplot segmentation fault on xstrftime

published 2025-03-27 19 mo ago modified 2026-11-05 4 d ago also EUVD-2025-8441 , JLSEC-2026-357

cvss
6.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in gnuplot. The xstrftime() function may lead to a segmentation fault, causing a system crash.

Patch / fix

  • julia Gnuplot_jll 6.0.3000+0
  • gnuplot gnuplot 6.0.0
  • gnuplot Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.10 6.0.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1
  • gnuplot Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 4.6.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
  • gnuplot Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1+esm2
  • gnuplot Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 5.2.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1+esm2
  • gnuplot Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 5.2.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
  • gnuplot Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 5.4.2+dfsg2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • gnuplot Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS 6.0.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu3+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-31179

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • gnuplot SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 5.4.3-150400.3.3.1
  • gnuplot SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 4.6.5-3.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:01811-2SUSE-SU-2025:01811-1SUSE-SU-2025:01805-1

  • gnuplot openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.0.2-3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15134-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-31179 updated cvss 6.2

gnuplot: gnuplot segmentation fault on xstrftime

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gnuplot, emacs-gnuplot, gnuplot-latex, gnuplot-common, gnuplot-minimal, emacs-gnuplot-el Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gnuplot, emacs-gnuplot, gnuplot-latex, gnuplot-common, gnuplot-minimal, emacs-gnuplot-el Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gnuplot, gnuplot-common
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Currently, no mitigation is available for this vulnerability”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Gnuplot_jll
<6.0.3000+0
6.0.3000+0

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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