Cairo
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First CVE: Jul 29, 2014 · Active for 11 years
11
Total CVEs
More Total CVEs than 89% of tracked products
1.6
Avg CVEs / Year
Higher CVE frequency than 59% of tracked products
6.2
Avg CVSS
Higher Avg CVSS than 24% of tracked products
0.0%
KEV Rate
Bottom 1%
Trends Over Time
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact Cairo over time
Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
Jul 29, 2014
11 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Aug 4, 2025
354 days ago
CVE Severity & Scoring
Cairo11 CVEs
9%
64%
27%
All CVEs352,231 CVEs
45%
40%
11%
LowMediumHigh
Attack Vector
Local4 (36.4%)
Network6 (54.5%)
Unknown1 (9.1%)
Physical0 (0.0%)
Adjacent Network0 (0.0%)
Attack Complexity
Low9 (81.8%)
High1 (9.1%)
Unknown1 (9.1%)
User Interaction
None3 (27.3%)
Unknown1 (9.1%)
Required7 (63.6%)
Privileges Required
Low0 (0.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
None10 (90.9%)
Unknown1 (9.1%)
Top CVEs
Signals from CVEs in this product 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 |
Exploit Exposure
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (11 CVEs).
CISA KEV
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Metasploit
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Nuclei
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
ExploitDB
1 CVE
9.1% of CVEs· 89th percentile
Social Chatter
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (11 CVEs).
Media Mentions
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (11 CVEs).
Top CNAs Publishing CVEs For Cairo
Top CWEs
Versions
| Version | CVE Count | Avg CVSS | Avg EPSS | KEV | Exploits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16.0 | 3 | 6.5 | 2.0% | 0 | 0 |
| 1.15.4 | 1 | 5.5 | 1.8% | 0 | 0 |
| 1.14.6 | 1 | 5.5 | 2.0% | 0 | 0 |
| 1.10.2 | 1 | 5.0 | 7.8% | 0 | 1 |