# CVE-2025-61979: Information disclosure in Affinity

> An attacker can disclose sensitive information by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted EMF file in Canva Affinity.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Mar 2026
- **Updated:** 18 Mar 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hqq7-47xm-xc6w

## What is CVE-2025-61979?

CVE-2025-61979 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canva Affinity, published on 17 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the EMF functionality of Canva Affinity. By using a specially crafted EMF file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform an out-of-bounds read, potentially leading to the disclosure of sensitive information.

Weakness: CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-61979?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Canva Affinity.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-61979?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-61979 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-61979 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-61979 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Canva Affinity

- [CVE-2025-64301](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-64301/): Memory corruption in Affinity (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2025-66342](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-66342/): Memory corruption in Affinity (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2025-47873](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-47873/): Information disclosure in Affinity (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2025-58427](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-58427/): Information disclosure in Affinity (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2025-61952](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-61952/): Information disclosure in Affinity (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-61979 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-61979 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canva Affinity, published on 17 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-61979 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Canva Affinity. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-61979/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-61979/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-61979
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61979
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-61979

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-61979/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.