CVE-2025-6297HIGH 8.2EPSS p26.4%
CVE-2025-6297CVE-2025-6297
Description
It was discovered that dpkg-deb does not properly sanitize directory permissions when extracting a control member into a temporary directory, which is
documented as being a safe operation even on untrusted data. This may result in leaving temporary files behind on cleanup. Given automated and repeated execution of dpkg-deb commands on
adversarial .deb packages or with well compressible files, placed
inside a directory with permissions not allowing removal by a non-root
user, this can end up in a DoS scenario due to causing disk quota
exhaustion or disk full conditions.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 8.2 (HIGH) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| EPSS | 0.35% probability of exploitation · percentile 26.4% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Published | 2025-07-01 |
| Last modified | 2025-08-19 |
Underlying weaknesses· 2
References
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Uncontrolled Resource Consumptioncwe-400 | 0% | live |
| Weakness | Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resourcecwe-732 | 0% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.