Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-47436

Medium

Published: 14 May 2025

Published
14 May 2025
Modified
14 July 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 6.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:N/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:M/U:Amber
EPSS Score 0.0029 52.9th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-47436 is a medium-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Apache Orc. Its CVSS base score is 6.0 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Apache ORC. A vulnerability has been identified in the ORC C++ LZO decompression logic, where specially crafted malformed ORC files can cause the decompressor to allocate a 250-byte buffer but then attempts to copy 295…

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bytes into it. It causes memory corruption. This issue affects Apache ORC C++ library: through 1.8.8, from 1.9.0 through 1.9.5, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.4, from 2.1.0 through 2.1.1. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.8.9, 1.9.6, 2.0.5, and 2.1.2, which fix the issue.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

apache
orc
≤ 1.8.9 · 1.9.0 — 1.9.6 · 2.0.0 — 2.0.5

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References