CVE-2025-60753

CVSS 5.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.1%CWE-400 CWE-835

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

05 Nov 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

An issue was discovered in libarchive bsdtar before version 3.8.1 in function apply_substitution in file tar/subst.c when processing crafted -s substitution rules. This can cause unbounded memory allocation and lead to denial of service (Out-of-Memory crash).

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

Affected products

n/a · n/a

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References

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2725 https://github.com/Papya-j/CVE/tree/main/CVE-2025-60753