Vulnerability · CVE-2025-59039
Prebid Universal Creative (PUC) is a JavaScript API to render multiple formats.
Published Sep 9, 2025 · catalog updated Sep 10, 2025 · Prebid Universal Creative (PUC)
Last checked Oct 27, 2026. A connected source was read within the last 7 days.
Check if you run it
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-59039. EPSS is 0.34%. Act only if a listed version of Prebid Universal Creative (PUC) is installed.
Gaps on this record
- The stored product name is a package slug. The name on this page is taken from the title (Prebid Universal Creative (PUC)).
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- Critical9.3
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 0.34%
- Remediation
- Advisory link
- Affected products
- vendor prebid prebid-universal-creative = 1.17.3
Prebid Universal Creative (PUC) is a JavaScript API to render multiple formats. Npm users of PUC 1.17.3 or PUC latest were briefly affected by crypto-related malware. This includes the extremely popular jsdelivr hosting of this file. The maintainers of PUC unpublished version 1.17.3. Users should see Prebid.js 9 release notes for suggestions on moving off the deprecated workflow of using the PUC or pointing to a dynamic version of it. PUC users pointing to latest should transition to 1.17.2 as soon as possible to avoid similar attacks in the future.
Are you affected?
Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.
The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.
- vendor prebid prebid-universal-creative = 1.17.3= 1.17.3
How to fix CVE-2025-59039
No stored fix
No vendor fix text is stored. Use the linked advisory before you change production.
Version check
Seen in = 1.17.3
Advisory
Open the cve_org record and follow its fix.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-59039. EPSS is 0.34%. Act only if a listed version of Prebid Universal Creative (PUC) is installed.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with prebid prebid-universal-creative = 1.17.3 = 1.17.3. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.34%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Sep 9, 2025 · EUVD
Detected
Prebid Universal Creative (PUC) is a JavaScript API to render multiple formats. Npm users of PUC 1.17.3 or PUC latest were briefly affected by crypto-related malware. This includes the extremely popular jsdelivr hosting of this file. The maintainers of PUC unpublished version 1.17.3. Users should see Prebid.js 9 release notes for suggestions on moving off the deprecated workflow of using the PUC o
Sep 10, 2025 · EUVD
Updated
Prebid Universal Creative (PUC) is a JavaScript API to render multiple formats. Npm users of PUC 1.17.3 or PUC latest were briefly affected by crypto-related malware. This includes the extremely popular jsdelivr hosting of this file. The maintainers of PUC unpublished version 1.17.3. Users should see Prebid.js 9 release notes for suggestions on moving off the deprecated workflow of using the PUC o
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-59039
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-59039
30-day exploitation probability 0.34%
first.org - EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-27597
Prebid Universal Creative (PUC) is a JavaScript API to render multiple formats. Npm users of PUC 1.17.3 or PUC latest were briefly affected by crypto-related malware. This includes the extremely popular jsdelivr hosting of this file. The maintainers of PUC unpublished version 1.1
euvd.enisa.europa.eu
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 27, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.
- FIRST EPSSOct 27, 2026
- CVE.orgOct 22, 2026
- EUVDOct 22, 2026