CVE-2025-9900 | Libtiff: libtiff write-what-where

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.

Published: 2025-09-23 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-9900 is rated Moderate Risk (53.4/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.75%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-9900

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.05% 0.75% +0.70%
2 2026-06-09 0.03% 0.05% +0.03%
3 2026-02-18 0.03%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-9900

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
8.8 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
2.8 5.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-9900

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-9900

GHSA-qc8j-wvjf-7jfj · Severity: high — A flaw was found in Libtiff. This vulnerability is a "write-what-where" condition, triggered when...

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-9900

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-9900 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (tiff), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-9900
redhat high https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9900
suse high CVE-2025-9900 severity important: SUSE including 330 source package names (0.6.18-12.46:libtiff6-4.7.1-150600.3.23.1, 0.9.1-3.40:libtiff6-4.7.1-150600.3.23.1, …), 866 product×package rows across 231 product lines (Container containers/open-webui, Container containers/vllm-openai, … (231 product lines)): Fixed 351, Known Not Affected 281, Known Affected 231, First Fixed 3. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9900/
ubuntu high CVE-2025-9900 high priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (gdal, neuron, qtwebengine-opensource-src, texmaker, tiff), 40 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 13, needed 12, released 8, needs-triage 5, ignored 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-9900

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-9900

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-9900

URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17651
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17675
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17710
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17738
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17739
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17740
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19113
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19156
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19276
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19906
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19947
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20956
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20998
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21060
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21061
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21062
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21407
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21506
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21507
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21508
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21994
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23078
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23079
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23080
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0001
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0076
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0077
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0078
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3461
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3462
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7504
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9900
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2392784
https://github.com/SexyShoelessGodofWar/LibTiff-4.7.0-Write-What-Where?tab=readme-ov-file
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/704
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/732
https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/releases/v4.7.1.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/26/3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00031.html
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