What is CVE-2015-7557?

CVE-2015-7557 is a high-severity vulnerability in GNOME Librsvg, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-05-20.

How severe is CVE-2015-7557?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in GNOME Librsvg

CVE-2015-7557

The _rsvg_node_poly_build_path function in rsvg-shapes.c in librsvg before 2.40.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via an odd number of elements in a coordinate pair in an SVG document.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2016-05-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.021 (80.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GNOME Librsvg

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/5 (mailing-list)
git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/rsvg-shapes.c (Vendor Advisory)
git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/tree/NEWS (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-7557?: CVE-2015-7557 is a high-severity vulnerability in GNOME Librsvg, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-05-20.
How severe is CVE-2015-7557?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.