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CVE-2025-59933

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-59933 describes a buffer read overflow in libvips versions 8.17.1 and below, specifically when processing crafted PDF headers via the poppler library. This vulnerability affects libvips installations compiled with poppler PDF support, allowing an attacker to potentially achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but has low attack complexity (AC:L). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.17.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libvips:libvips:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

5.1MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
LOW
VS Integrity
LOW
VS Availability
LOW
SS Confidentiality
LOW
SS Integrity
LOW
SS Availability
LOW
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0018 is in the 5th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

vicarius.io / vsociety/posts/cve-2025-59933-detect-libvips-vulnerability
vicarius.io / vsociety/posts/cve-2025-59933-mitigate-libvips-vulnerability
github.com / libvips/libvips/commit/a58bfae9223a5466cc81ba9fe6dfb08233cf17d1
Patch
github.com / libvips/libvips/releases/tag/v8.17.2
Release Notes
github.com / libvips/libvips/security/advisories/GHSA-q8px-4w5q-c2r4
MitigationPatchVendor Advisory