CVE-2025-5917 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

2.8