CVE-2026-50811

FAUCET Score

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in FreeType 2.14.3 and versions before commit 5a280ecde6f324de0d226261036e736e0cb49a71 in src/truetype/ttgxvar.c, in the TT_Get_Var_Design implementation used by FT_Get_Var_Design_Coordinates

First published: Jul 7, 2026Last modified: Jul 7, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
N/A	N/A	n/aCNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.5

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.28%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

20.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0028 is in the 10th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn

Product: freetype (resolute)Fixed in: 2.14.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

ubuntuUSN-8562-1

FreeType vulnerability

Jul 20, 2026

References

gitlab.freedesktop.org / freetype/freetype/-/work_items/1436

gist.github.com / junius-sec/6dd0fb25b643f89914083a38e5e57ace

github.com / freetype/freetype/commit/5a280ecde6f324de0d226261036e736e0cb49a71

gitlab.freedesktop.org / freetype/freetype/-/commit/5a280ecde6f324de0d226261036e736e0cb49a71

gitlab.freedesktop.org / freetype/freetype/-/issues/1436