Uncontrolled Recursion in TinyCBOR - CVE-2025-20025

 

Uncontrolled Recursion in TinyCBOR - CVE-2025-20025

Published: August 18, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU114164
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-20025
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite recursion. A local user can cause a denial of service condition on the target system.


Affected software

TinyCBOR

How to mitigate CVE-2025-20025

Install updates from vendor's website.

TinyCBOR - update to 0.6.1

External References

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