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Vulnerability details: VCID-uxj6-4181-rygt
Vulnerability ID VCID-uxj6-4181-rygt
Aliases CVE-2025-28164
Summary libpng: libpng: Denial of Service via buffer overflow in png_create_read_struct() function
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.0 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2025-28164.json
epss 0.00015 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00015 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
epss 0.00018 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
cvssv3.1 3.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://gist.github.com/kittener/506516f8c22178005b4379c8b2a7de20
ssvc Track https://gist.github.com/kittener/506516f8c22178005b4379c8b2a7de20
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/655
ssvc Track https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/655
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2025-28164.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-28164
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-28164
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
2433398 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433398
506516f8c22178005b4379c8b2a7de20 https://gist.github.com/kittener/506516f8c22178005b4379c8b2a7de20
655 https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/655
RHSA-2026:6732 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6732
USN-7993-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7993-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2025-28164.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://gist.github.com/kittener/506516f8c22178005b4379c8b2a7de20
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-01-28T16:35:03Z/ Found at https://gist.github.com/kittener/506516f8c22178005b4379c8b2a7de20
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/655
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-01-28T16:35:03Z/ Found at https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/655
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.03304
EPSS Score 0.00015
Published At April 2, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:32:19.203218+00:00 RedHat Importer Import https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2025-28164.json 38.0.0