CVE-2025-0725
7.3
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.60%
Description
When libcurl is asked to perform automatic gzip decompression of content-encoded HTTP responses with the `CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING` option, **using zlib 1.2.0.3 or older**, an attacker-controlled integer overflow would make libcurl perform a buffer overflow.
How to fix CVE-2025-0725
To remediate CVE-2025-0725, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/curl—upgrade to 8.12.0-r0 or later
- —no fix listed
Is CVE-2025-0725 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 8.12.0-r0
- from 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |