CVE-2026-95512

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-10-02. A secondary CVSS source baseline 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — Patch released this week
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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 v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5MEDIUMhigh confidence
EG Risk
29
EG Risk 29/100CISA SSVC

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 computed
Severity55% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. 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
6th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

October 2, 2026

Last Modified

October 2, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 2, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
generic

* src/cid/cidload.c (cid_read_subrs): Limit overlaps. (f3ca71c9) · Commits · FreeType / FreeType · GitLab

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/commit/f3ca71c9900fe860849b3163a6e2c1e765b291d9
redhat

2462295 – (CVE-2026-95512) CVE-2026-95512 freetype: FreeType: Denial of Service via repeated subroutine allocations in CID font loader

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462295
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-95512 - 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-2026-95512

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-95512(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatfreetype-main-2.14.3-2.1.hum12026-10-02redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 18× 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.

  1. 2026-10-03 19:41 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-03 19:41 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-03 19:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-10-02 18:51 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-02 18:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-10-02 15:26 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-02 15:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-02 14:29 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-02 14:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-02 11:28 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-02 11:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-10-02 10:36 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-02 10:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-10-02 09:17 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-02 09:11 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-02 09:10 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-95512?
CVE-2026-95512 is a medium vulnerability published on October 2, 2026. 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…
When was CVE-2026-95512 disclosed?
CVE-2026-95512 was first published on October 2, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-95512 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-95512 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (6th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-95512?
CVE-2026-95512 has a CVSS base score of 5.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-95512?
A fix for CVE-2026-95512 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-95512 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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