CVE-2025-9287 (GCVE-0-2025-9287)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-20 21:43 – Updated: 2025-11-03 18:14
VLAI?
Title
Missing type checks leading to hash rewind and passing on crafted data
Summary
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in cipher-base allows Input Data Manipulation.This issue affects cipher-base: through 1.0.4.
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.0.4 (semver)
Credits
https://github.com/ChALkeR https://github.com/ChALkeR https://github.com/ChALkeR https://github.com/ljharb
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