CVSS 3.1
5.0 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2025-5917
Medium (5.0). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- libarchive:libarchive
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:openshift_container_platform