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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2025-11579 json

DoS via Out Of Memory Crash

published 2025-10-10 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-08 32 d ago also GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg , GO-2025-4020 , EUVD-2025-33711

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

github.com/nwaples/rardecode versions <=2.1.1 fail to restrict the dictionary size when reading large RAR dictionary sizes, which allows an attacker to provide a specially crafted RAR file and cause Denial of Service via an Out Of Memory Crash.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/nwaples/rardecode/v2 2.2.0
  • nwaples rardecode 2.2.0
  • golang-github-nwaples-rardecode Debian 14 2.2.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-11579

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1
  • jfrog-cli openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.104.1-1.1
  • hauler openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.3.1-bp160.1.1
  • hauler openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.3.1-1.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20251105T184115-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10844-1openSUSE-SU-2025:20160-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15722-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15710-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-11579 updated cvss 5.3

github.com/nwaples/rardecode: RarDecode Out Of Memory Crash

  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-plugin-event-sender-rhel8 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-collector-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-operator-bundle, +6 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/oc-mirror-plugin-rhel8, openshift4/oc-mirror-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Trusted Application Pipeline rhtap-task-runner/rhtap-task-runner-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
12 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/nwaples/rardecode/v2
<2.2.0
2.2.0
go github.com/nwaples/rardecode
<=1.1.3
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • nwaples rardecode

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

References

Sources

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