🛡️ CVE-2025-5914
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-190 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library, specifically within the archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() function. This flaw involves an integer overflow that can ultimately lead to a double-free condition. Exploiting a double-free vulnerability can result in memory corruption, enabling an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-190
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-09
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-02-05

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
libarchive 3.8.0
openshift-container-platform

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370861

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