🛡️ CVE-2025-50129 — sail

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-122 NVD

8.8

CVSS Score

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Description

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the PCX Image Decoding functionality of the SAIL Image Decoding Library v0.9.8. When decoding the image data from a specially crafted .tga file, a heap-based buffer overflow can occur which allows for remote code execution. An attacker will need to convince the library to read a file to trigger this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-50129 is classified as CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow. A write past the end of a heap allocation corrupts allocator metadata or neighbouring objects.

Affected software

CVE-2025-50129 is recorded against 1 package.

sail

Timeline and source

Published on 25 August 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

talosintelligence.com
www.talosintelligence.com

CVE-2025-50129 on other distributions

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

Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 8.8

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE CWE-122

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2025-08-25

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
sail	—	—

References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2220

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2220

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