Is CVE-2012-3402 being actively exploited?

CVE-2012-3402 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2012-3402?

CVE-2012-3402 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 6.8 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2012-3402

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 4.3%EU EUVD

Integer overflow in plug-ins/common/psd.c in the Adobe Photoshop PSD plugin in GIMP 2.2.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted channels header value in a PSD image file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3909.

Key facts

CVSS score: 6.8 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-190
EPSS score: 4.3% (91th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2012-3373)
Published: August 25, 2012
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-3373 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

gimp / gimp

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1181.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/2012/08/20/6(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027411(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=603059&action=diff(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838941(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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