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CVE-2025-15270VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: fontforge security update

Affects Red Hat fontforgeSource GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 18:22 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 6 Apr 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 5 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated FontForge packages for Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder 9 and 9.8 Extended Update Support to fix this vulnerability. Users should apply these official updates promptly following Red Hat's guidance at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are specified or required beyond applying the provided patches.

Description

A security vulnerability in FontForge, a font editor supporting multiple font formats, allows remote code execution via malicious SFD file parsing. This issue is tracked as CVE-2025-15270 and affects Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder 9 and its Extended Update Support 9.8 variants. Red Hat has issued a security advisory with an important severity rating and provided updated packages to address this flaw.

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