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CVE-2026-2271

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2026-2271 describes a low-severity integer overflow vulnerability in GIMP's PSP file parser. This flaw allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow and out-of-bounds write, potentially causing an application-level denial of service, by convincing a user to open a specially crafted PSP image file. Rated with a CVSS score of 3.3 (LOW), the attack requires local access and user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion regarding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gimp:gimp:3.2.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.3LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.5%
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 45th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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 (4)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gimp
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
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2026-2271Moderate

gimp: GIMP: Denial of service via crafted PSP image file

Feb 10, 2026

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2026-2271
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/gimp/-/issues/15732
ExploitIssue Tracking