CVE-2025-2721

medium

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size_t leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

References

https://www.gnome.org/

https://vuldb.com/?submit.520181

https://vuldb.com/?id.300741

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.300741

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-03-25

Updated: 2025-03-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium