CVE-2026-62439

HIGHPre-NVD 7.07.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-17. The CNA's CVSS baseline 7.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated
7.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.0Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

The highest-value action is to enforce checked arithmetic and header dimension bounds verification before allocating pixel destination buffers in the file-pvr plug-in: upgrade to the fixed Gimp/Gimp:2.8/Gimp builds, whi… (from the CVE record's workaround, Red Hat, Inc.) — apply it.

A flaw was found in GIMP. An integer overflow occurs in the file-pvr plug-in when calculating memory buffer sizes for image dimensions. By tricking a user into opening or previewing a specially crafted PowerVR (.pvr) file, an attacker can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Service (DoS) via an application crash.

CVSS v3
7.0
EG Score
7.0HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
48
EG Risk 48/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity70% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: The highest-value action is to enforce checked arithmetic and header dimension bounds verification before allocating pixel destination buffers in the file-pvr plug-in: upgrade to the fixed Gimp/Gimp:2.8/Gimp builds, whi… (from the CVE record's workaround, Red Hat, Inc.). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
7th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.0 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-20). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

The highest-value action is to enforce checked arithmetic and header dimension bounds verification before allocating pixel destination buffers in the file-pvr plug-in: upgrade to the fixed Gimp/Gimp:2.8/Gimp builds, whi… (from the CVE record's workaround, Red Hat, Inc.). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 16, 2026

Last Modified

October 20, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 16, 2026
Fix named in the CVE record's workaround (Red Hat, Inc.). Sources: redhat.
Web page

(CVE-2026-62439) GIMP file-pvr Plug-in PVR File Parsing Integer Overflow Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (#16314) · Issues · GNOME / GIMP · GitLab

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16314
Red Hat

2554464 – (CVE-2026-62439) CVE-2026-62439 gimp: gimp: file-pvr Plug-in PVR File Parsing Integer Overflow Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2554464
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-62439 - 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-2026-62439

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-62439(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 22× in last 7d / 22× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  2. 2026-10-20 20:53 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-20 20:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2fp-ffqv-fqvj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  4. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  5. 2026-10-19 21:09 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-19 21:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2fp-ffqv-fqvj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  7. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  8. 2026-10-19 15:25 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-19 15:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2fp-ffqv-fqvj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  10. 2026-10-19 15:10 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-19 15:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2fp-ffqv-fqvj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  12. 2026-10-19 11:27 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-19 11:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2fp-ffqv-fqvj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  14. 2026-10-19 11:00 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-19 11:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2fp-ffqv-fqvj · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.0
  16. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  17. 2026-10-18 03:24 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  19. 2026-10-16 23:45 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-16 22:27 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-16 21:59 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 7.0 HIGH
  22. 2026-10-16 21:57 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-62439?
CVE-2026-62439 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 16, 2026. A flaw was found in GIMP. An integer overflow occurs in the file-pvr plug-in when calculating memory buffer sizes for image dimensions. By tricking a user into opening or previewing a specially crafted PowerVR (.pvr) file, an attacker can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, potentially leading to…
When was CVE-2026-62439 made public?
CVE-2026-62439 was made public on April 28, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on October 16, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 20, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-62439 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-62439 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (7th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-62439?
CVE-2026-62439 has a CVSS base score of 7.0 (the CNA's own assessment, by redhat; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-62439?
The CVE record's workaround for CVE-2026-62439, written by its CNA Red Hat, Inc., names the fix: "The highest-value action is to enforce checked arithmetic and header dimension bounds verification before allocating pixel destination buffers in the file-pvr plug-in: upgrade to the fixed Gimp/Gimp:2.8/Gimp builds, whi…" The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-62439 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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