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🛡️ CVE-2025-5001 — pspp

🟢 CVSS 3.3 — Low ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-189 NVD
3.3
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Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU PSPP 82fb509fb2fedd33e7ac0c46ca99e108bb3bdffb. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function calloc of the file pspp-convert.c. The manipulation of the argument -l leads to integer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Affected software

CVE-2025-5001 is recorded against 1 package.

  • pspp

Timeline and source

Published on 20 May 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

drive.google.com
savannah.gnu.org
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
www.gnu.org
savannah.gnu.org

Other advisories for this package

pspp has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-189) in other software:

CVE-2025-5001 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-189
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-05-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pspp — —

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