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CVE-2025-6196

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-6196 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in libgepub, a library for parsing EPUB files, affecting products like gnome enterprise_linux and redhat enterprise_linux. The flaw stems from incorrect file size calculations when processing specially crafted EPUB files, leading to memory allocation errors and application crashes. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector requiring user interaction, with a high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:libgepub:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
9.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 11th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libgepub

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2025-6196Moderate

libgepub: Integer Overflow in libgepub's EPUB Archive Handling

Jun 17, 2025

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2025-6196
MitigationThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/libgepub/-/issues/18
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory