{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5278 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-5278 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17, published on 27 May 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5278 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-5278 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17, published on 27 May 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5278 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5278/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5278/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-5278","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5278/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-5278","record":{"aliases":["ALSA-2026:28911","ALSA-2026:33124","ALSA-2026:69964","AZL-93060","BELL-CVE-2025-5278","CLSA-2026-1783530353","CLSA-2026-1783532249","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-5278","ECHO-d009-fb3c-dd57","GHSA-ch64-4x3c-w3jq","MGASA-2025-0172","OESA-2025-1637","RHSA-2026:28911","RHSA-2026:33124","RHSA-2026:69964","RLSA-2026:28911","RLSA-2026:33124","RLSA-2026:69964","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-5278","SUSE-SU-2025:02353-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02354-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02362-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20523-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20660-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-5278","openSUSE-SU-2025:15327-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNU Coreutils sort","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A heap buffer under-read in GNU Coreutils sort allows attackers to cause crashes or leak sensitive data via crafted key specifications.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":4.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-121","name":"Stack-based Buffer Overflow"}],"description":"A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils. 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