ghsa-488m-4fx8-f36v
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Published
2025-05-16 15:31
Modified
2025-05-16 18:31
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Details

FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library.

The included FastCGI library is affected by CVE-2025-23016, causing 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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-40907"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-190"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-05-16T13:15:52Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library.\n\nThe included FastCGI library is affected by  CVE-2025-23016, causing 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.",
  "id": "GHSA-488m-4fx8-f36v",
  "modified": "2025-05-16T18:31:06Z",
  "published": "2025-05-16T15:31:02Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40907"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/issues/67"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/perl-catalyst/FCGI/issues/14"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/releases/tag/2.4.5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/pull/74.patch"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/cve-2025-23016-exploiting-the-fastcgi-library"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/23/4"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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