Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in libsoup - CVE-2025-32051

 

Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in libsoup - CVE-2025-32051

Published: May 29, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU109930
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-32051
CWE-ID: CWE-754
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper error handling within the soup_uri_decode_data_uri() function when processing a malformed URI. A remote attacker can trick the victim into clicking on a specially crafted link and crash the application.


Affected software

libsoup
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
libsoup-devel-64bit
libsoup-3_0-0-32bit
libsoup-devel-32bit
libsoup-3_0-0-debuginfo
libsoup-debugsource
libsoup-3_0-0
libsoup-devel
typelib-1_0-Soup-3_0
libsoup-3_0-0-32bit-debuginfo
libsoup-lang
libsoup-3_0-0-64bit
libsoup-3_0-0-64bit-debuginfo

How to mitigate CVE-2025-32051

Install updates from vendor's website.

libsoup - update to 3.6.1
libsoup-devel-64bit - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-3_0-0-32bit - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-devel-32bit - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-3_0-0-debuginfo - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-debugsource - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-3_0-0 - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-devel - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
typelib-1_0-Soup-3_0 - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-3_0-0-32bit-debuginfo - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-lang - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-3_0-0-64bit - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1
libsoup-3_0-0-64bit-debuginfo - addressed in versions 3.0.4-150400.3.7.1, 3.4.4-150600.3.7.1

External References

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