CVE-2026-95512

A flaw was found in FreeType, specifically within its CID font loader. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening content that embeds or references a specially crafted CID-keyed font. This crafted font can cause repeated allocations and decryptions of subroutine data across multiple font dictionaries, leading to excessive memory and CPU consumption. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) for the application or service processing the font, potentially causing it to hang or terminate.

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 7% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-400

Published

2026-10-02

Modified

2026-10-06

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74952
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-95512
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462295
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/commit/f3ca71c9900fe860849b3163a6e2c1e765b291d9

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