CVE-2025-5222

HIGH 1 PoC
MEDIUM Priority: 0.03 BB Relevance: 39/100
Published: 2025-05-27 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

No Auth Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: High
PR: None
UI: Required
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

A stack buffer overflow was found in Internationl components for unicode (ICU ). While running the genrb binary, the 'subtag' struct overflowed at the SRBRoot::addTag function. This issue may lead to memory corruption and local arbitrary code execution.

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
— — 0 < 78.1
unicode international_components_for_unicode < 77.1

References & Advisories (18)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11888
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12083
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12331
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12332
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12333
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54544
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54553
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54581
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56786
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56853
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56911
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60019
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65839
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368600
issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT

Proof of Concept (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

39 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ PoC available (1)

CVSS Score

7.0 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.44%
Raw Score 0.004390
Percentile 38.7%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00439
2026-11-13
0.00439
2026-11-12
0.00439
2026-11-10
0.00439
2026-11-09
0.00439
2026-11-08
0.00439
2026-11-07
0.00439
2026-11-06
0.00439
2026-11-05
0.00439

Intelligence Sources

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