Description

Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in PointCloudLibrary pcl allows Overflow Buffers. Since version 1.14.0, PCL by default uses a zlib installation from the system, unless the user sets WITH_SYSTEM_ZLIB=FALSE. So this potential vulnerability is only relevant if the PCL version is older than 1.14.0 or the user specifically requests to not use the system zlib.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-4640

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.3

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:L/U:Amber

Affected Products

Vendor: PointCloudLibrary

Product: pcl

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 16.45% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-12 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4640
https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/6246
https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/blob/master/surface/CMakeLists.txt#L70
https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/commit/502bd2b013ce635f21632d523aa8cf2e04f7b7ac

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