{"id":"CVE-2025-5917","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-5917","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:46:13.399Z","title":"A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library.","description":"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.","published":"2025-06-09T20:15:27.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-01T13:17:48.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-787"],"affected":["libarchive/libarchive","redhat/openshift container platform","redhat/enterprise linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00226,"percentile":0.13158,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588","tags":["Patch"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5917","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}