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 3.18.2 (HIGH)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS0.35% probability of exploitation · percentile 26.4% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z
Published2025-07-01
Last modified2025-08-19

Underlying weaknesses· 2

CWE-400CWE-732

References

  1. https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=ed6bbd445dd8800308c67236ba35d08004c98e82

2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessUncontrolled Resource Consumptioncwe-4000%live
WeaknessIncorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resourcecwe-7320%live

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