CVE-2025-6375

A vulnerability was found in poco up to 1.14.1. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function MultipartInputStream of the file Net/src/MultipartReader.cpp. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 1.14.2 is able to address this issue. The patch is identified as 6f2f85913c191ab9ddfb8fae781f5d66afccf3bf. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/commit/6f2f85913c191ab9ddfb8fae781f5d66afccf3bf
• https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/issues/4915
• https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/releases/tag/poco-1.14.2-release
• https://github.com/user-attachments/files/19524599/poco_crash.txt
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.313370
• https://vuldb.com/?id.313370
• https://vuldb.com/?submit.597446
• https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/issues/4915