CVE-2025-60753

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-60753
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-60753.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-60753
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-11-05T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-06-26T18:29:24.053508834Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in libarchive bsdtar before version 3.8.1 in function apply_substitution in file tar/subst.c when processing crafted -s substitution rules. This can cause unbounded memory allocation and lead to denial of service (Out-of-Memory crash).

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/60xxx/CVE-2025-60753.json",
    "cna_assigner": "mitre"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
9525f90ca4bd14c7b335e2f8c84a4607b0af6bdf
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "DESCRIPTION",
        "CPE_RANGE"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.8.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.8.1"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v3.*
v3.0.0a
v3.0.1b
v3.1.900a
v3.2.0
v3.2.1
v3.2.2
v3.3.0
v3.3.1
v3.3.2
v3.3.3
v3.4.0
v3.4.1
v3.4.2
v3.4.3
v3.5.0
v3.5.1
v3.5.2
v3.6.0
v3.6.1
v3.6.2
v3.7.0
v3.7.1
v3.7.2
v3.7.3
v3.7.4
v3.7.5
v3.8.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-60753.json"