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medium 6.5

CVE-2025-50949 json

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

published 2025-10-23 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-27 13 d ago also EUVD-2025-35700

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • fontforge Debian 14 1:20251009+git20260808~dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-50949

  • fontforge SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 20251009-160000.1.1
  • fontforge SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 20230101-160000.3.1
  • fontforge SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 20200314-150200.3.12.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20435-1SUSE-SU-2026:20016-1SUSE-SU-2025:4353-1

  • fontforge openSUSE Leap 16.0 20251009-160000.1.1
  • fontforge openSUSE Leap 16.0 20230101-160000.3.1
  • fontforge openSUSE Tumbleweed 20251009-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20235-1openSUSE-SU-2025:20174-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15758-1

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-2025-50949 updated cvss 5.3

fontforge: Fontforge memory leak

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 fontforge Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 fontforge Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 fontforge
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
12 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.