VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2025-5916

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library.

MEDIUM 5.6EPSS 0.18%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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 3.1: 5.6 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 0.18% probability · 8th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-190
Affected: libarchive/libarchive · redhat/openshift container platform · redhat/enterprise linux
Source: secalert@redhat.com

References

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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.