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CVE-2025-54484VulnerabilityPublished Updated

CVE-2025-54484: The Biosig Project libbiosig · Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affects The Biosig Project libbiosigSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.8 Critical.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
9.8Critical
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 52% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 25 Aug 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
The Biosig Project libbiosigAffected
  • =3.9.0
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Monitor The Biosig Project repositories and security advisories for an official patch addressing CVE-2025-54484 and apply it immediately upon release. 2. Until a patch is available, implement strict input validation to reject MFER files with tag 6 data lengths exceeding the expected maximum (4 bytes). 3. Employ sandboxing or containerization for applications processing MFER files to limit the impact of potential exploitation. 4. Restrict network and user access to systems that parse MFER files, especially from untrusted sources. 5. Conduct code audits and static analysis on any custom or third-party software using libbiosig to identify and mitigate unsafe parsing practices. 6. Deploy runtime protections such as stack canaries, ASLR, and DEP to reduce exploitation success. 7. Educate developers and system administrators about the risks of processing untrusted biomedical data formats and enforce secure coding practices. 8. Implement network-level monitoring for anomalous activity related to MFER file handling or unexpected process behavior in affected systems.

Description

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 8779 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 6: else if (tag==6) // 0x06 "number of sequences" { // NRec if (len>4) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag6 incorrect length %i>4\n",len); curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);

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