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CVE-2025-8851VulnerabilityPublished

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-8851· Medium 4.8

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.8 Medium · fixed in SUSE package updates : update SUSE when convenient.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026, 18:07 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
4.8Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 4.7.1
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

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 11 Aug 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 4 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Update the TIFF library to version 4.7.1 or later, which contains fixes for both CVE-2025-8851 and CVE-2025-9900. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.

Description

Two security vulnerabilities in the TIFF library were fixed in version 4.7.1. These include a stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2025-8851) and a write-what-where condition via the TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented function (CVE-2025-9900).

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