What is CVE-2024-25165?

CVE-2024-25165 is a high-severity vulnerability in Swftools, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2024-02-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-25165?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Swftools

CVE-2024-25165

A global-buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in SWFTools v0.9.2, in the function LineText at lib/swf5compiler.flex.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2024-02-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (41.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 41.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Swftools — versions 0.9.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-120 — Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow)

References

github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/217 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-25165?: CVE-2024-25165 is a high-severity vulnerability in Swftools, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2024-02-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-25165?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.