CVE-2025-5917

Published Jun 9, 2025

Last updated 3 months ago

CVSS low 2.8

Overview

Description
A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw involves an 'off-by-one' miscalculation when handling prefixes and suffixes for file names. This can lead to a 1-byte write overflow. While seemingly small, such an overflow can corrupt adjacent memory, leading to unpredictable program behavior, crashes, or in specific circumstances, could be leveraged as a building block for more sophisticated exploitation. This bug affects libarchive versions prior to 3.8.0.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified
Products
libarchive, openshift_container_platform, enterprise_linux

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1.3
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-787

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

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References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.