CVE-2025-23016 (GCVE-0-2025-23016)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-10 00:00 – Updated: 2026-02-26 19:09
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Summary
FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) 2.x through 2.4.4 has an integer overflow (and resultant heap-based buffer overflow) via crafted nameLen or valueLen values in data to the IPC socket. This occurs in ReadParams in fcgiapp.c.
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
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FastCGI fcgi Affected: 2.0.0 , ≤ 2.4.4 (semver)
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