A vulnerability was determined in LibTIFF up to 4.5.1. Affected by this issue is the function readSeparateStripsetoBuffer of the file tools/tiffcrop.c of the component tiffcrop. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The patch is identified as 8a7a48d7a645992ca83062b3a1873c951661e2b3. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Libtiff
  • Libtiff

No data.

No data.

References
Link Providers
http://www.libtiff.org/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/8a7a48d7a645992ca83062b3a1873c951661e2b3 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8851 cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319382 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?id.319382 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?submit.624604 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8851 cve-icon
History

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Libtiff
Libtiff libtiff
Vendors & Products Libtiff
Libtiff libtiff

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:15:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Moderate

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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Description A vulnerability was determined in LibTIFF up to 4.5.1. Affected by this issue is the function readSeparateStripsetoBuffer of the file tools/tiffcrop.c of the component tiffcrop. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The patch is identified as 8a7a48d7a645992ca83062b3a1873c951661e2b3. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
Title LibTIFF tiffcrop tiffcrop.c readSeparateStripsetoBuffer stack-based overflow
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-121
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2025-08-12T13:43:18.136Z

Reserved: 2025-08-10T19:05:43.677Z

Link: CVE-2025-8851

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-11T15:14:13.361Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-11T14:15:27.597

Modified: 2025-08-12T14:15:30.617

Link: CVE-2025-8851

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-08-11T13:32:08Z

Links: CVE-2025-8851 - Bugzilla