CVE-2026-71391

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.005 · 45 %ileDEEU

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.54% (45th) EPSS

CVSS 5.3 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-24

GNU Emacs for Android contains an off-by-one error in the gvar table parser in src/sfnt.c. The shared-coordinate index boundary check in sfnt_vary_simple_glyph() and sfnt_vary_compound_glyph() uses a strict greater-than comparison instead of greater-than-or-equal, allowing a crafted TrueType variable font to bypass the check and trigger a heap-based out-of-bounds read via memcpy. An attacker can deliver a malicious font file via email, EWW (Emacs Web Wowser), or documents with custom faces, causing Emacs to load it. This exposes heap memory contents which can be later used to defeat ASLR. This issue was fixed in commit 95ab9ef627b212d74d321c5bbb5b56a1be7b9fbe

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 1.3–5.3

v4.05.3mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v4.05.3mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Xsecondary · cvd@cert.pl

v4.01.3lowCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Xsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-193US

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source GNU Emacsall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:gnu:emacs:-
GNU emacs≤ 0 ≤30.2enisa_euvdEU

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-2721GNU Emacs: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-08-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in GNU Emacs ausnutzen, um Informationen offenzulegen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, und um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-08-10modified 2026-10-24

references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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