CVE-2025-60753

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Nov 5, 2025
Updated: Nov 5, 2025
Reserved: Sep 26, 2025

Description

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).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

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

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