Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-49179

High

Published: 17 June 2025

Published
17 June 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0018 40.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-49179 is a high-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Freedesktop (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 40.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A flaw was found in the X Record extension. The RecordSanityCheckRegisterClients function does not check for an integer overflow when computing request length, which allows a client to bypass length checks.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

Freedesktop
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

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

References