What is CVE-2026-58381?

CVE-2026-58381 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gimp, classified under Double Free. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2026-07-02.

How severe is CVE-2026-58381?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Double Free in Gimp

CVE-2026-58381

A flaw was found in GIMP's PSP file format parser. A double-free condition occurs in the read_layer_block() function when processing a specially crafted PSP file. This could allow an attacker to cause memory corruption, potentially leading to denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

Vulnerability class: Double Free

Published 2026-07-02 · last modified 2026-09-22.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (20.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 20th percentile — 20.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Gimp
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-415 — Double Free

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-58381 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/commit/b22e147b (Patch)
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16207 (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-58381?: CVE-2026-58381 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gimp, classified under Double Free. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2026-07-02.
How severe is CVE-2026-58381?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.