Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-5278

MediumUpdated

Published: 27 May 2025

Published
27 May 2025
Modified
19 May 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.9th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-5278 is a medium-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Gnu (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 4.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.9th 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 GNU Coreutils. The sort utility's begfield() function is vulnerable to a heap buffer under-read. The program may access memory outside the allocated buffer if a user runs a crafted command using the traditional key format.…

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A malicious input could lead to a crash or leak sensitive data.

CWE(s)
CWE-121

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

Gnu
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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