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CVE-2025-50949

medium

FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.

Vendor / product: Fontforge — fontforge

FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.

CVSS
6.5
6.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2025-10-23 16:15
Modified: 2026-10-27 12:10
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 11:29 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

fontforge / fontforge 2023-01-01

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5491

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 11:29 UTC · record ↗

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