{"id":69833,"date":"2025-09-02T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-06T08:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:52:23","slug":"cve-2025-52930-high-risk-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-sail-image-decoding-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52930-high-risk-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-sail-image-decoding-library\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-52930: High Risk Memory Corruption Vulnerability in SAIL Image Decoding Library<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE-2025-52930 is a severe vulnerability that exists in the BMPv3 RLE Decoding functionality of the SAIL Image Decoding Library v0.9.8. This vulnerability could potentially lead to a system compromise or data leakage, posing a significant risk to any system or application that uses this library. The gravity of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31713-a-potential-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-due-to-command-injection\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"79472\">vulnerability is heightened due<\/a> to the fact that an attacker can trigger it remotely, simply by convincing the library to read a maliciously crafted .bmp file. Therefore, it is essential for all users and developers of the SAIL Image Decoding Library to understand the nature of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-42950-sap-landscape-transformation-vulnerability-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"77541\">vulnerability and take immediate steps to mitigate its potential<\/a> impact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-52930<br \/>\nSeverity: High Risk, CVSS score 8.8<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Remote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-24298-arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerability-in-openharmony\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"77768\">code execution<\/a><br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8939-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-tenda-ac20-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"78277\">Potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3263256048\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-53510-critical-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-sail-image-decoding-library\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"89135\">SAIL Image Decoding<\/a> Library | v0.9.8<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability lies in the BMPv3 RLE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-44952-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-pfcp-library-of-open5gs-due-to-missing-length-check\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"78382\">Decoding functionality of the SAIL Image<\/a> Decoding Library. When decompressing the image data from a specially crafted .bmp file, a heap-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54878-heap-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-nasa-cryptolib\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"77491\">buffer overflow<\/a> can occur. This buffer overflow can then be exploited by an attacker to execute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-21165-out-of-bounds-write-vulnerability-in-substance3d-designer-leading-to-arbitrary-code-execution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"77457\">arbitrary code<\/a> on the targeted system. The attacker needs to craft a .bmp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-55746-unauthenticated-file-manipulation-vulnerability-in-directus\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"78727\">file<\/a> in such a way that it triggers the vulnerability when the library reads the file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3313171739\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a conceptual example of how an attacker might exploit this vulnerability:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\"># Pseudocode\ndef create_malicious_bmp():\n# Create a buffer overflow in the .bmp file\nbmp_data = create_buffer_overflow()\n# Save the malicious payload in the .bmp file\nbmp_file = save_to_file(bmp_data, &#039;malicious.bmp&#039;)\nreturn bmp_file\ndef exploit_vulnerability(target_system, bmp_file):\n# Use the SAIL Image Decoding Library to read the .bmp file\ntarget_system.read_file_with_sail(bmp_file)\n# The buffer overflow triggers, executing the malicious code<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This pseudocode illustrates how an attacker can create a malicious .bmp file that, when read by the SAIL Image Decoding Library, triggers a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-53131-heap-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-windows-media\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"77618\">buffer overflow<\/a> and executes arbitrary code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best way to mitigate this vulnerability is to apply the vendor&#8217;s patch. If a patch is not readily available, a temporary mitigation solution would be to make use of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or an Intrusion Detection System (IDS). These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3671-critical-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-wpgym-wordpress-gym-management-system-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"80530\">systems can monitor and filter out the malicious .bmp files<\/a> and prevent the SAIL Image Decoding Library from reading them, thus blocking the attack vector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview CVE-2025-52930 is a severe vulnerability that exists in the BMPv3 RLE Decoding functionality of the SAIL Image Decoding Library v0.9.8. This vulnerability could potentially lead to a system compromise or data leakage, posing a significant risk to any system or application that uses this library. The gravity of this vulnerability is heightened due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[86,80],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-69833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","attack_vector-buffer-overflow","attack_vector-rce"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69833"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81959,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69833\/revisions\/81959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69833"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=69833"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=69833"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=69833"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=69833"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=69833"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=69833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}