CVE-2025-54485

moderate-risk
Published 2025-08-25

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the MFER parsing functionality of The Biosig Project libbiosig 3.9.0 and Master Branch (35a819fa). A specially crafted MFER file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability manifests on line 8785 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 8: else if (tag==8) { if (len>2) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag8 incorrect length %i>2\n",len); curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);

Do I need to act?

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0.30% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

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moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal