CVE-2012-2763
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 81.7%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the readstr_upto function in plug-ins/script-fu/tinyscheme/scheme.c in GIMP 2.6.12 and earlier, and possibly 2.6.13, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a command to the script-fu server.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-120
- EPSS score
- 81.7% (100th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2743)
- Published
- July 12, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2743 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gimp / gimp
References
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-6&id=744f7a4a2b5acb8b531a6f5dd8744ebb95348fc2(Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00043.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50737(Broken Link)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/31/1(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/01/1(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/advisories/scriptfu-buffer-overflow-GIMP-2.6.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679215(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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