CVE-2025-60753

MEDIUM

libarchive < 3.8.1 - Denial of Service via Crafted Substitution Rules

Title source: llm

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).

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory

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

View Exploit ZIP pw:eip

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2725

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0014

EPSS Percentile 3.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-400 CWE-835

Status published

Products (1)

libarchive/libarchive < 3.8.1

Published Nov 05, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026