# CVE-2025-40907: FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2025-05-16 · Updated: 2025-09-05

## Affected

- FCGI: from 0.44, through 0.82

## Description

FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library. The included FastCGI library is affected by CVE-2025-23016, causing an integer overflow (and resultant heap-based buffer overflow) via crafted nameLen or valueLen values in data to the IPC socket. This occurs in ReadParams in fcgiapp.c.

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## References

- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/23/4
- https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/issues/67
- https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/releases/tag/2.4.5
- https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/cve-2025-23016-exploiting-the-fastcgi-library
- https://github.com/perl-catalyst/FCGI/issues/14
- https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/pull/74.patch

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