CVE-2025-25472

Medium

Published: 18 February 2025

Published

18 February 2025

Modified

04 November 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0022 44.5th percentile

Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-25472 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Offis Dcmtk. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

A buffer overflow in DCMTK git master v3.6.9+ DEV allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted DCM file.

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

offis

dcmtk

3.6.9

debian

debian linux

11.0

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.