CVE-2025-68131 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-68131: CBORDecoder reuse can leak shareable values across decode calls

Vendor Agronholm
Product cbor2
Weakness CWE-212
Published December 31, 2025
Last update January 2, 2026

CVSS base score

5.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

What the vulnerability does

01Description

cbor2 provides encoding and decoding for the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) serialization format. Starting in version 3.0.0 and prior to version 5.8.0, whhen a CBORDecoder instance is reused across multiple decode operations, values marked with the shareable tag (28) persist in memory and can be accessed by subsequent CBOR messages using the sharedref tag (29). This allows an attacker-controlled message to read data from previously decoded messages if the decoder is reused across trust boundaries. Version 5.8.0 patches the issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 31, 2025 CVE published
January 2, 2026 Record updated