nwaples/rardecode · Security
rardecode: DoS risk due to unrestricted RAR dictionary sizes
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-11579
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-789 · Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value