CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-2849

4.8 MEDIUM Published 2025-03-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-03-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.7 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-122, CWE-787

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in UPX up to 5.0.0. Affected is the function PackLinuxElf64::un_DT_INIT of the file src/p_lx_elf.cpp. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is identified as e0b6ff192412f5bb5364c1948f4f6b27a0cd5ea2. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Affected configurations

• upx upx (<= 5.0.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References