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CVE-2025-15467

high CVSS 8.8 EPSS 48.2%

Issue summary: Parsing CMS AuthEnvelopedData or EnvelopedData message with maliciously crafted AEAD parameters can trigger a stack buffer overflow. Impact summary: A stack buffer overflow may lead to a crash, causing Denial of Service, or potentially remote code execution. When parsing CMS (Auth)EnvelopedData structures that use AEAD ciphers such as AES-GCM, the IV (Initialization Vector) encoded in the ASN.1 parameters is copied into a fixed-size stack buffer without verifying that its length fits the destination. An attacker can supply a crafted CMS message with an oversized IV, causing a stack-based out-of-bounds write before any authentication or tag verification occurs. Applications and services that parse untrusted CMS or PKCS#7 content using AEAD ciphers (e.g., S/MIME (Auth)EnvelopedData with AES-GCM) are vulnerable. Because the overflow occurs prior to authentication, no valid key material is required to trigger it. While exploitability to remote code execution depends on platform and toolchain mitigations, the stack-based write primitive represents a severe risk. The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the CMS implementation...

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Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2025-15467 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

At a glance

Severity
High
CVSS base score
8.8 out of 10
Known exploited
Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
EPSS
48.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-120
Published
2026-01-27

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