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CVE-2025-62609

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-62609 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting MLX, an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon, prior to version 0.29.4. It involves a segmentation fault in mlx::core::load_gguf() when processing malicious GGUF files, leading to an application crash due to dereferencing an untrusted, unvalidated pointer. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, resulting in high availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.29.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ml-explore:mlx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/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
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
LOW
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
PROOF_OF_CONCEPT
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 10th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: mlxFixed in: 0.29.4

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2025-62609Moderate

mlx: MLX has Wild Pointer Dereference in load_gguf()

Nov 21, 2025
pipGHSA-j842-xgm4-wf88medium

MLX has Wild Pointer Dereference in load_gguf()

Nov 21, 2025

References

github.com / ml-explore/mlx/security/advisories/GHSA-j842-xgm4-wf88
ExploitThird Party Advisory