CVE-2025-43708 Denial of service in VisiCut
An attacker can cause a denial of service in VisiCut by providing a malicious XML document with deeply nested elements, leading to stack exhaustion.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-43708?
CVE-2025-43708 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in VisiCut, published on 17 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
VisiCut 2.1 allows stack consumption via an XML document with nested set elements, as demonstrated by a java.util.HashMap StackOverflowError when reference='../../../set/set[2]' is used, aka an "insecure deserialization" issue.
Weakness: CWE-674
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43708?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Visicut Visicut.
How do I fix CVE-2025-43708?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43708 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-43708 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-43708 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in VisiCut
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wjm4-hw2r-m766.