CVE-2025-71450: benhoyt inih

inih before r63 Stack Buffer Under-Read in ini_parse_stream Discard Loop

CVSS 4.8 MediumEPSS 0.0013 · 2nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 2 Nov 2026, 14:28 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
benhoyt	inih	affected before r63 custom Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2025-71450

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-127

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
4.8	Medium	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
3.3	Low	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0013, the 2nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

2 Nov 2026, 14:28 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
2 Nov 2026, 14:37 UTC First seen by agentprime
2 Nov 2026, 15:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/benhoyt/inih/pull/206 issue-trackingpatch
github.com/benhoyt/inih/issues/223 issue-tracking
github.com/benhoyt/inih/commit/8e06f6b77b5d4471bdc6d85ada81b67d37354a5c patch
github.com/benhoyt/inih/blob/r62/ini.c#L162-L169 technical-description
github.com/benhoyt/inih/releases/tag/r63 release-notes
hackmd.io/@haindpwn/inih-long-line-discard-oob-read technical-description
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/inih-before-r63-stack-buffer-under-read-in-ini-parse-stream-discard-loop third-party-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.