CVE-2025-66217
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2025-66217, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2025-11-29

Last updated on: 2025-12-23

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

AIS-catcher is a multi-platform AIS receiver. Prior to version 0.64, an integer underflow vulnerability exists in the MQTT parsing logic of AIS-catcher. This vulnerability allows an attacker to trigger a massive Heap Buffer Overflow by sending a malformed MQTT packet with a manipulated Topic Length field. This leads to an immediate Denial of Service (DoS) and, when used as a library, severe Memory Corruption that can be leveraged for Remote Code Execution (RCE). This issue has been patched in version 0.64.

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Published
2025-11-29
Last Modified
2025-12-23
Generated
2026-07-06
AI Q&A
2025-11-29
EPSS Evaluated
2026-07-05
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Vendor Product Version / Range
aiscatcher ais-catcher to 0.64 (exc)

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CWE-122 A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
CWE-191 The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is an integer underflow in the MQTT parsing logic of AIS-catcher before version 0.64. An attacker can send a malformed MQTT packet with a manipulated Topic Length field, causing a massive Heap Buffer Overflow. This leads to an immediate Denial of Service (DoS) and, if AIS-catcher is used as a library, severe Memory Corruption that can be exploited for Remote Code Execution (RCE).

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can cause an immediate Denial of Service (DoS) by crashing the AIS-catcher application. Additionally, if AIS-catcher is used as a library, it can lead to severe Memory Corruption that attackers may exploit to execute arbitrary code remotely, potentially compromising the affected system.

Mitigation Strategies

The immediate step to mitigate this vulnerability is to upgrade AIS-catcher to version 0.64 or later, where the integer underflow vulnerability in the MQTT parsing logic has been patched.

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