NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting pocoproject/poco package, versions [,1.14.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POCOPROJECTPOCO-10692952
  • published11 Jul 2025
  • disclosed21 Jun 2025
  • creditJJLeo

Introduced: 21 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2025-6375  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pocoproject/poco to version 1.14.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the MultipartInputStream function in the file Net/src/MultipartReader.cpp. An attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering a null pointer dereference through crafted input processed locally.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1