CVE-2025-66034

medium

Description

fontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. In versions from 4.33.0 to before 4.60.2, the fonttools varLib (or python3 -m fontTools.varLib) script has an arbitrary file write vulnerability that leads to remote code execution when a malicious .designspace file is processed. The vulnerability affects the main() code path of fontTools.varLib, used by the fonttools varLib CLI and any code that invokes fontTools.varLib.main(). This issue has been patched in version 4.60.2.

References

https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/security/advisories/GHSA-768j-98cg-p3fv

https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/commit/a696d5ba93270d5954f98e7cab5ddca8a02c1e32

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-11-29

Updated: 2025-11-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00094