CVE-2025-53816 (GCVE-0-2025-53816)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-17 18:09 – Updated: 2026-05-11 16:53
VLAI
Title
GHSL-2025-058 - 7-Zip Multi-byte write heap buffer overflow in NCompress::NRar5::CDecoder
Summary
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Zeroes written outside heap buffer in RAR5 handler may lead to memory corruption and denial of service in versions of 7-Zip prior to 25.0.0. Version 25.0.0 contains a fix for the issue.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ipavlov 7-Zip Affected: < 25.0.0
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