Cairographics maintains Cairo, a widely embedded graphics rendering library that powers compositing and 2D drawing across many desktop environments, web browsers, and graphical applications despite a narrow product footprint. Its vulnerability profile centers on memory-safety and parsing issues—out-of-bounds writes, buffer-boundary violations, integer overflows, and NULL-pointer dereferences—that arise from the library's role in processing untrusted graphical data and vector formats. These classes have a moderate tendency to acquire public exploit code, reflecting the attack surface presented by graphical parsing in browsers and other high-value targets that link the library. Defenders should track Cairo updates closely in downstream products rather than at the library alone, since remediation typically requires rebuilds across a broad supply chain; current exploitation activity and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Cairographics over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (11 CVEs).
11 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2014-5116MEDIUM The cairo_image_surface_get_data function in Cairo 1.10.2, as used in GTK+ and Wireshark, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) | Jul 29, 2014 | 5.0 | 31 | NO | YES |
CVE-2017-9814HIGH cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call | Jul 17, 2017 | 7.5 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2020-35492HIGH A flaw was found in cairo's image-compositor.c in all versions prior to 1.17.4. This flaw allows an attacker who can provide a crafted input file to cairo's image-compositor (for e | Mar 18, 2021 | 7.8 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-6462MEDIUM An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the function _arc_error_normalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to _arc_max_angle_for_tolerance_normalized | Jan 16, 2019 | 6.5 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-6461MEDIUM An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an assertion problem in the function _cairo_arc_in_direction in the file cairo-arc.c. | Jan 16, 2019 | 6.5 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-3190HIGH The fill_xrgb32_lerp_opaque_spans function in cairo-image-compositor.c in cairo before 1.14.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and applicati | Apr 21, 2016 | 7.5 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-19876MEDIUM cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free function incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading to an application crash with | Dec 5, 2018 | 6.5 | 22 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-18064MEDIUM cairo through 1.15.14 has an out-of-bounds stack-memory write during processing of a crafted document by WebKitGTK+ because of the interaction between cairo-rectangular-scan-conver | Oct 8, 2018 | 6.5 | 22 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-7475MEDIUM Cairo version 1.15.4 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference related to the FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Render_Glyph resulting in an application crash. | May 19, 2017 | 5.5 | 21 | NO | NO |
Cairo through 1.18.4, as used in Poppler through 25.08.0, has an "unscaled->face == NULL" assertion failure for _cairo_ft_unscaled_font_fini in cairo-ft-font.c. | Aug 4, 2025 | 2.9 | 17 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (11 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Cairographics.
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