Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-5916

Low

Published: 09 June 2025

Published
09 June 2025
Modified
12 December 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 3.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0010 27.5th percentile
Risk Priority 8 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-5916 is a low-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 3.9 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 27.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw involves an integer overflow that can be triggered when processing a Web Archive (WARC) file that claims to have more than INT64_MAX - 4 content bytes. An attacker could…

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craft a malicious WARC archive to induce this overflow, potentially leading to unpredictable program behavior, memory corruption, or a denial-of-service condition within applications that process such archives using libarchive. This bug affects libarchive versions prior to 3.8.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-190

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

libarchive
libarchive
≤ 3.8.0
redhat
openshift container platform
4.0
redhat
enterprise linux
10.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

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

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