CVE-2025-46397Xfig: xfig: stack-overflow allows possible code execution via local input manipulation
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.30%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 76% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in xfig. This vulnerability allows possible code execution via local input manipulation via bezier_spline function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 76% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
xfig
- affected ≤ 3.2.9a
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- unaffected 1:3.2.6a-5.el8_10 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- unaffected 1:3.2.7b-11.el9_7 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support
- unaffected 1:3.2.7b-10.el9_4.1 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support
- unaffected 1:3.2.7b-10.el9_6.1 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions: unknown
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions: unknown
References
References8
- RHSA-2026:0700 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:0704 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:0705 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:0756 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46397 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2362058 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/192/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00043.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-12159 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-46397)Record last updated .