CVE-2025-5917

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 v3 2.8 LOW

2.8^/10

CVSS v3 : LOW

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.3 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917	Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874	Issue Tracking
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588	Patch
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0	Release Notes

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:::::::*

History

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Information

Published : 2025-06-09 20:15

Updated : 2025-08-15 18:16

NVD link : CVE-2025-5917

Mitre link : CVE-2025-5917

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-5917

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Products Affected

redhat

openshift_container_platform
enterprise_linux

libarchive

libarchive

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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