CVE-2025-54488CRITICAL 9.8EPSS p45.7%
CVE-2025-54488CVE-2025-54488
Description
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the MFER parsing functionality of The Biosig Project libbiosig 3.9.0 and Master Branch (35a819fa). A specially crafted MFER file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability manifests on line 8850 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 13:
else if (tag==13) {
if (len>8) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag13 incorrect length %i>8\n",len);
curPos += ifread(&buf,1,len,hdr);
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 9.8 (CRITICAL) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.64% probability of exploitation · percentile 45.7% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Published | 2025-08-25 |
| Last modified | 2025-11-03 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
References
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Stack-based Buffer Overflowcwe-121 | 0% | live |
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