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CVE-2025-9900VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-9900· High 8.8

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.8 High.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
8.8High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 61% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 23 Sep 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: 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 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Product Security Red HatAffected
  • Red Hat
  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • aarch64
  • libtiff-main@aarch64
  • 0
  • libtiff-0:4.7.1-2.1.hum1@aarch64
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Red Hat currently does not offer a mitigation or patch that meets their criteria for ease of deployment, applicability, or stability. Users should exercise caution when opening TIFF image files from untrusted sources. Monitor Red Hat advisories for future updates or patches addressing this vulnerability. Customers with Red Hat Technical Account Managers (TAM) can consult them for further guidance.

Description

A flaw was found in Libtiff. This vulnerability is a "write-what-where" condition, triggered when the library processes a specially crafted TIFF image file. By providing an abnormally large image height value in the file's metadata, an attacker can trick the library into writing attacker-controlled color data to an arbitrary memory location. This memory corruption can be exploited to cause a denial of service (application crash) or to achieve arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user.

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