CVE-2025-3001
Published: 31 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-3001 is a medium-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Linuxfoundation Pytorch. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 35.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Deep Learning Frameworks; in the Not Applicable risk domain.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-8856
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in PyTorch 2.6.0. This vulnerability affects the function torch.lstm_cell. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be…
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AI Security AnalysisAI
- AI Category
- Deep Learning Frameworks
- Risk Domain
- Not Applicable
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- Matched keywords: pytorch
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Local memory corruption (CWE-119) in PyTorch torch.lstm_cell enables exploitation for privilege escalation (T1068) via potential RCE and endpoint denial of service through application crash/segmentation fault (T1499.004), as demonstrated by public PoC.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
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.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.