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CVE-2026-2239

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2026-2239 describes a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in GIMP's fread_pascal_string function, affecting GIMP and Red Hat Enterprise Linux when processing specially crafted PSD files. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) requires user interaction to open a malicious file, leading to an application crash and a denial of service. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gimp:gimp:3.2.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

2.8LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gimp:2.8/gimp
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: gimp

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2026-2239Low

gimp: GIMP: Application crash (DoS) via crafted PSD file due to heap-buffer-overflow

Feb 9, 2026

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2026-2239
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/gimp/-/issues/15812
ExploitIssue Tracking