CVE-2026-9500: gnu libredwg

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-9500 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in gnu libredwg. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 25-05-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 26-05-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU LibreDWG up to 0.14. The affected element is the function read_2004_compressed_section of the file src/decode.c of the component Dwgread Utility. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based buffer overflow. The attack is only possible with local access. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowA heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().