Colord: Slow rejection of oversized malformed color strings

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Severity and exploitation

• CISA KEV Not listed.
• EPSS 0.0051, the 43rd percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 8 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

• GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-2wm5-q62r-hmrv
• OSV: GHSA-2wm5-q62r-hmrv
• github.com/omgovich/colord/security/advisories/GHSA-2wm5-q62r-hmrv
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85062
• github.com/omgovich/colord/pull/141
• github.com/omgovich/colord/commit/87018089515ed66a85b1a95c3c7c3fd69a25bac2
• github.com/omgovich/colord

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.