What is GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg?

GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. rardecode: DoS risk due to unrestricted RAR dictionary sizes

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg cover?

GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2025-11579. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg?

GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg?

GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg affects 2 products, including: go/github.com/nwaples/rardecode/v2:\u003c 2.2.0; go/github.com/nwaples/rardecode:\u003c= 1.1.3.

GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rggMediumCVSS 5.3

rardecode: DoS risk due to unrestricted RAR dictionary sizes

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 10, 2025

Last Modified

December 11, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-11579 →

📋 Description

rardecode versions <= 2.1.1 fail to restrict the dictionary size when reading large RAR dictionary sizes, which allows an attacker to provide a specially crafted RAR file and cause Denial of Service via an Out Of Memory Crash.

🎯 Affected products2

go/github.com/nwaples/rardecode/v2:< 2.2.0
go/github.com/nwaples/rardecode:<= 1.1.3

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11579
https://github.com/nwaples/rardecode/commit/52fb4e825c936636f251f7e7deded39ab11df9a9
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-4020
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rwvp-r38j-9rgg