CVE-2025-5898: gnu pspp

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-5898 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in gnu pspp. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.6% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 09-06-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 10-06-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GNU PSPP 82fb509fb2fedd33e7ac0c46ca99e108bb3bdffb. Affected is the function parse_variables_option of the file utilities/pspp-convert.c. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds write. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteThe product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.