🛡️ CVE-2025-25724
🟡 CVSS 4.0 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-252 NVD
4.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

list_item_verbose in tar/util.c in libarchive through 3.7.7 does not check an strftime return value, which can lead to a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive that is read with a verbose value of 2. For example, the 100-byte buffer may not be sufficient for a custom locale.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-252
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-03-02
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-07-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libarchive 3.7.7

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