CVE-2025-13952: Imaginationtech Ddk

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A web page that contains unusual GPU shader code is loaded from the Internet into the GPU compiler process triggers a write use-after-free crash in the GPU shader compiler library. On certain platforms, when the compiler process has system privileges this could enable further exploits on the device. The shader code contained in the web page executes a path in the compiler that held onto an out of date pointer, pointing to a freed memory object.

Affected products

• Imaginationtech Ddk: before 25.3 (fixed in 25.3)

Published 2026-01-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.