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CVE-2025-60753

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

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).

Affected products

• libarchive: through 3.8.1

References

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

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