CVE-2025-49589 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-49589

PCSX2 Contains a Stack-based Buffer Overflow in IOP Console Logging

Vulnerability Description

PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator. A stack-based buffer overflow exists in the Kprintf_HLE function of PCSX2 versions up to 2.3.414. Opening a disc image that logs a specially crafted message may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code if the user enabled IOP Console Logging. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.414.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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CVE-2025-67749
PCSX2 has an Out-of-bounds Read due to unchecked offset and size passed to memcpy
Medium 5.3

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

pcsx2
Vulnerable Versions:
< 2.3.414

Timeline

Official Publish: June 12th, 2025
Last Modified: June 13th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-121

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1055 Process Injection
Defense Evasion
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
Command and Control
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact