CVE-2025-57275 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.5) CWE-120 vulnerability in spdk. A fix is available for spdk — see the affected versions and patch details below.
SPDK is vulnerable to buffer overflow in the NVMe-oF target component
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-57275.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) 25.05 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the NVMe-oF target component in SPDK - lib/nvmf.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | spdk | all versions | 25.9pip install --upgrade 'spdk==25.9' |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for spdk, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update spdk to 25.9 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-57275 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Stop feeding it untrusted input: reject or quarantine files and payloads from unverified sources until you can upgrade, restrict accepted formats to the ones you actually need, and run the parsing or decoding step in a least-privileged sandbox or short-lived worker so a crash or corrupted read cannot reach the rest of the process.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2025-57275 in your dependencies?
Find it across PyPI, including transitive dependencies.