Paper/Archive/CVE-2025-1866

CVE-2025-1866

warmcat libwebsockets — Undefined Behavior Due to Out-of-Bounds Pointer Arithmetic in libwebsockets

Description · from the CVE record

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in warmcat libwebsockets allows Pointer Manipulation, potentially leading to out-of-bounds memory access. This issue affects libwebsockets before 4.3.4 and is present in code built specifically for the Win32 platform. By default, the affected code is not executed unless one of the following conditions is met: LWS_WITHOUT_EXTENSIONS (default ON) is manually set to OFF in CMake. LWS_WITH_HTTP_STREAM_COMPRESSION (default OFF) is manually set to ON in CMake. Despite these conditions, when triggered in affected configurations, this vulnerability may allow attackers to manipulate pointers, potentially leading to memory corruption or unexpected behavior.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
libwebsockets< <4.3.4<4.3.4CNA

Scores by source

GovTech CSG (CNA)10.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

patchgithub.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/commit/3f7c79fd57338aca1bf4a1b1f24e324b80d36265