CVE-2025-5916

MEDIUM EPSS 4.7%
Published Jun 9, 20251y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
5.6 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Jun 9, 2025 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw involves an integer overflow that can be triggered when processing a Web Archive (WARC) file that claims to have more than INT64_MAX - 4 content bytes. An attacker could craft a malicious WARC archive to induce this overflow, potentially leading to unpredictable program behavior, memory corruption, or a denial-of-service condition within applications that process such archives using libarchive. This bug affects libarchive versions prior to 3.8.0.

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.6
Exploitability
1.3
Impact
4.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
4.7% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound Numeric Error

Affected Products 7

VendorProductVersionRange
libarchivelibarchive* <3.8.0
redhatopenshift_container_platform4.0any
redhatenterprise_linux6.0any
redhatenterprise_linux7.0any
redhatenterprise_linux8.0any
redhatenterprise_linux9.0any
redhatenterprise_linux10.0any

References 4

  • access.redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5916
    Vendor Advisory
  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370872
    Issue Tracking
  • github.com https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2568
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0
    Release Notes

Remediation

  • github.com https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2568
    Patch