CVE-2025-50343 | An issue was discovered in matio 1.5.28. A heap-based memory… | CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

Description

An issue was discovered in matio 1.5.28. A heap-based memory corruption can occur in Mat_VarCreateStruct() when the nfields value does not match the actual number of strings in the fields array. This leads to out-of-bounds reads and invalid memory frees during cleanup, potentially causing a segmentation fault or heap corruption.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2025-50343
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 2025-06-16 00:00 UTC
Published: 2025-12-30 00:00 UTC
Last updated: 2026-01-02 18:06 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-122
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Vendor / Product: n/a / n/a
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: PoC
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
n/a	n/a	—	n/a

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
—	cna	n/a
CWE-122	adp	CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
9.8	CRITICAL	3.1	adp	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)