Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-97185 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-97185 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-97185?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.8, published 24 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- GNOME GIMP.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-97185?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-97185 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-97185?
- Check whether you run Gnome GIMP. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is an out-of-bounds write (CWE-787) in the GIMPressionist plugin that occurs when processing specially crafted preset files due to improper vector index validation before writing to fixed-size arrays. The attack requires local user interaction (user must load the malicious preset file) with no elevated privileges needed. Successful exploitation can corrupt memory and enable arbitrary code execution in the user's context.
Affected products
- GNOME GIMP
Timeline
- 2026-09-24: disclosed