🛡️ CVE-2025-53948 — sante-pacs-server

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-415 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

The Sante PACS Server allows a remote attacker to crash the main thread by sending a crafted HL7 message, causing a denial-of-service condition. The application would require a manual restart and no authentication is required.

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. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-53948 is classified as CWE-415: Double Free. The same allocation is released twice, corrupting allocator bookkeeping.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53948 is recorded against 1 package.

  • sante-pacs-server (fixed in 4.2.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 August 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.cisa.gov

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-415
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-08-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sante-pacs-server — 4.2.3

References

Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-medical-advisories/icsma-25-224-01

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