Description
A vulnerability exists in the inftrees.c component of the zlib library, which is bundled within the PointCloudLibrary (PCL). This issue may allow context-dependent attackers to cause undefined behavior by exploiting improper pointer arithmetic. Since version 1.14.0, PCL by default uses a zlib installation from the system, unless the user sets WITH_SYSTEM_ZLIB=FALSE. So this potential vulnerability is only relevant if the PCL version is older than 1.14.0 or the user specifically requests to not use the system zlib.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch patch
https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/6245
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0039
EPSS Percentile
60.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (1)
pointclouds/point_cloud_library
< 1.14.0
Published
May 14, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026