Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68114

Medium

Published: 17 December 2025

Published
17 December 2025
Modified
02 January 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0014 3.8th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-68114 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Capstone-Engine Capstone. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 3.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Capstone is a disassembly framework. In versions 6.0.0-Alpha5 and prior, an unchecked vsnprintf return in SStream_concat lets a malicious cs_opt_mem.vsnprintf drive SStream’s index negative or past the end, leading to a stack buffer underflow/overflow when the next write occurs. Commit…

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2c7797182a1618be12017d7d41e0b6581d5d529e fixes the issue.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

capstone-engine
capstone
6.0.0 · ≤ 6.0.0

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.

addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

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