What is CVE-2025-23022?

CVE-2025-23022 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freetype, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2025-01-10.

How severe is CVE-2025-23022?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Freetype

CVE-2025-23022

FreeType 2.8.1 has a signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex in cff/cf2intrp.c.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2025-01-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (13.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 14th percentile — 13.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Freetype — versions 2.8.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1312 (Exploit)
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-23022 (Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-23022?: CVE-2025-23022 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freetype, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2025-01-10.
How severe is CVE-2025-23022?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.