CVE catalog
CVE-2025-5898
pspp: CVE-2025-5898
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.17% · Oct 25, 2026
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GNU PSPP 82fb509fb2fedd33e7ac0c46ca99e108bb3bdffb. Affected is the function parse_variables_option of the file utilities/pspp-convert.c. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds write. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | pspp | sid | 2.1.2-1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | pspp | forky | 2.1.2-1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | pspp | trixie | 2.0.1-1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | pspp | bookworm | 1.6.2-2 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | pspp | source | sid | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1107818] |
| Debian | pspp | source | forky | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1107818] |
| Debian | pspp | source | trixie | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1107818] |
| Debian | pspp | source | bookworm | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1107818] |
Notes
[trixie] pspp: Minor issue [bookworm] pspp: Minor issue
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [pspp]Affected
Details (2)
1.6.2-2· amd64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · pspp · debian · bookworm
1.6.2-2· arm64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · pspp · debian · bookworm
Observed: