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High CVSS 7.8

CVE-2026-42958

NVD analysis in progress

The application contains a use-after-free vulnerability that can be exploited to cause memory corruption while parsing specially crafted files. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.

What this means

Exposure
Exploitable with local access to the machine and without authentication — but only if a user opens booby-trapped content.
Impact
An attacker can read sensitive data, modify or destroy data and take the service offline.
Weakness
Already-freed memory is reused, letting the attacker reclaim it and hijack execution.
Likelihood
Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.

What to doFold into the next patch cycle.

Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.

Published
7 July 2026
CVSS
7.8 (v3.1) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.13% probability of exploitation within 30 days · above 3% of all CVEs
Weakness
CWE-416
Sources
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References

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