CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-60753

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-11-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-11-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-835

Description

An issue was discovered in libarchive bsdtar before version 3.8.1 in function apply_substitution in file tar/subst.c when processing crafted -s substitution rules. This can cause unbounded memory allocation and lead to denial of service (Out-of-Memory crash).

Affected configurations

• libarchive libarchive (<= 3.8.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References