CVE-2025-13837 (GCVE-0-2025-13837)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-01 18:13 – Updated: 2026-03-03 14:41
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Out-of-memory when loading Plist
Summary
When loading a plist file, the plistlib module reads data in size specified by the file itself, meaning a malicious file can cause OOM and DoS issues
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-01 18:23 UTC
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python Software Foundation | CPython |
Affected:
0 , < 3.10.20
(python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.15 (python) Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.13 (python) Affected: 3.13.0 , < 3.13.10 (python) Affected: 3.14.0 , < 3.14.1 (python) Affected: 3.15.0a1 , < 3.15.0a3 (python) |
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"title": "Out-of-memory when loading Plist",
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},
"cveMetadata": {
"assignerOrgId": "28c92f92-d60d-412d-b760-e73465c3df22",
"assignerShortName": "PSF",
"cveId": "CVE-2025-13837",
"datePublished": "2025-12-01T18:13:32.739Z",
"dateReserved": "2025-12-01T17:54:41.439Z",
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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