CVE-2026-95512Freetype: freetype: denial of service via repeated subroutine allocations in cid font loader

Description

A flaw was found in FreeType, specifically within its CID font loader. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening content that embeds or references a specially crafted CID-keyed font. This crafted font can cause repeated allocations and decryptions of subroutine data across multiple font dictionaries, leading to excessive memory and CPU consumption. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) for the application or service processing the font, potentially causing it to hang or terminate.

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.18% · top 92% of all CVEs (13 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: Medium 5.5.

Affected products

• Red Hat · Red Hat Hardened Images

  • unaffected 2.14.3-2.1.hum1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 ELS

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

  All versions: unknown

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  All versions: affected

What to do

Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.

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-2026-91327 (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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 6 Nov 2026, 02:13 UTC.