CVE-2026-6695Medium· 5.5▾ SunlitA flaw was found in GIMP. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PAA (Paint Shop Pro Array) image file. This vulnerability, a heap-based out-of-bounds write in the decode_lzss() function …
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 30.3 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake. The CVSS score shown above comes from the assigning CNA record, not NVD.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via CVEORG
Last analysed / modified upstream
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A flaw was found in GIMP. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PAA (Paint Shop Pro Array) image file. This vulnerability, a heap-based out-of-bounds write in the decode_lzss() function of the PAA file format plugin, allows data to be written beyond the intended memory buffer. This could lead to heap metadata corruption and potentially enable the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.
gimp (all versions)gimp (all versions)gimp:2.8/gimp (all versions)gimp (all versions)Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
To mitigate this issue, users should avoid opening .paa files from untrusted sources. If GIMP is not required, consider removing the gimp package to eliminate the attack vector. Removing the gimp package may also remove other desktop-related packages that depend on it.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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