CVE-2025-40907

medium

Description

FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library. The included FastCGI library is affected by CVE-2025-23016, causing 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.

References

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/cve-2025-23016-exploiting-the-fastcgi-library

https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/pull/74.patch

https://github.com/perl-catalyst/FCGI/issues/14

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/releases/tag/2.4.5

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/issues/67

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/23/4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-05-16

Updated: 2025-05-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00058