PT-2025-5794 · Mintty · Mintty

Solid-Snail · Published 2025-02-05 · Updated 2025-02-18 · CVE-2025-1052

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mintty (affected versions not specified)

Description: This issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Mintty. User interaction is required to exploit this issue, where the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of sixel images, resulting from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute code in the context of the current user.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

RCE

Memory Corruption

Heap Based Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

CWE-122

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-1052

ZDI-25-084

Affected Products

Mintty

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1052 · Security Note
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-084 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1052 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvedetector/17763 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/dailycve/status/1891991031811301765 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/TheZDIBugs/status/1887599453063827701 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1889407879028887991 · Twitter Post