CVE-2025-61723 Affecting licenseclassifier package, versions <2.0.0-r5


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-LICENSECLASSIFIER-13811969
  • published3 Nov 2025
  • disclosed29 Oct 2025

Introduced: 29 Oct 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard licenseclassifier to version 2.0.0-r5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream licenseclassifier package and not the licenseclassifier package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

The processing time for parsing some invalid inputs scales non-linearly with respect to the size of the input. This affects programs which parse untrusted PEM inputs.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1