CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2025-23016
CRITICAL9.3
CVSS v3
Description
FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) 2.x through 2.4.4 has an integer overflow (and resultant heap-based buffer overflow) via crafted nameLen or valueLen values in data to the IPC socket. This occurs in ReadParams in fcgiapp.c.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Attack VectorLocal
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeChanged
Impact
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
0.56%probability of exploitation in 30 days
42ndpercentile
Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 42% of all known CVEs.
References
- https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/issues/67
- https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/releases/tag/2.4.5
- https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/cve-2025-23016-exploiting-the-fastcgi-library
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/23/4
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00009.html
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