Out-of-bounds read in GNU PSPP
Priority HIGH 72CWE-125Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
libpspp-core.a in GNU PSPP through 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause an spvxml-helpers.c spvxml_parse_attributes out-of-bounds read, related to extra content at the end of a document.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00353 29th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-47816
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-52xv-3j2w-p329
References
Exploit 1
More GNU Pspp vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-30268 Heap-based buffer overflow in GNU PSPP CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-30267 Heap-based buffer overflow in GNU PSPP CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-30546 Out-of-bounds read in GNU PSPP CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
- TI-2025-29793 Reachable assertion in GNU PSPP CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
- TI-2025-04483 GNU PSPP pspp-convert.c calloc integer overflow CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 4.8
- TI-2018-14337 An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.8
Sources
- CVE-2025-47816 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-47816 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-52xv-3j2w-p329 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-47816 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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