A flaw was found in GIMP's file format plugins, including those for PSD and PAA files. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted image file. This could lead to unexpected application behavior or other potential security impacts without requiring further user interaction.
CVE-2026-59091
This high-severity CVE scores 7.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.2%, top 94% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory enrichment pending alignment with NVD CVSS.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8(medium)
- EG Risk
- 35(Track)EG Risk 35/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity78% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 20%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 10, 2026
Last Modified
August 19, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Aug 10, 2026(CVE-2026-59091) file-paa Heap OOB read / information leak (#16510) · Issues · GNOME / GIMP · GitLab
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/165102496585 – (CVE-2026-59091) CVE-2026-59091 gimp: GIMP: Multiple vulnerabilities in file format plugins via crafted image file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2496585CVE-2026-59091 - Red Hat Customer Portal
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-59091Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-59091(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 29× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 22:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 09:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 20:16 UTCEG score recompute▲ 0.50
- 2026-08-19 20:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 20:15 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.8
- 2026-08-19 18:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 18:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 04:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 15:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 15:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 00:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-17 11:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 22:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 22:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 10:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 10:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 21:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 08:14 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-15 08:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-14 19:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-08-13 20:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 07:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 18:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-12 18:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-12 05:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 16:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 16:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 16:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 16:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 04:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 04:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 04:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 04:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-10 19:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-10 18:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-10 18:54 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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