Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component Affecting libtom/libtommath package, versions [,1.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBTOMLIBTOMMATH-11344795
  • published31 Jul 2025
  • disclosed16 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-40913  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1395  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libtom/libtommath to version 1.2.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component via the bn_mp_grow function. An attacker can cause unexpected behavior or potentially execute arbitrary code by providing specially crafted input that triggers an integer overflow in the embedded dependency.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1