CVE-2025-60753

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.5) in libarchive libarchive. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in libarchive bsdtar before version 3.8.1 in function apply_substitution in file tar/subst.c when processing crafted -s substitution rules. This can cause unbounded memory allocation and lead to denial of service (Out-of-Memory crash).

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-400, CWE-835
Published: 2025-11-05
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

libarchive:libarchive

References

https://github.com/Papya-j/CVE/tree/main/CVE-2025-60753
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2725

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