VDB
CVE-2025-68468
CVE-2025-68468
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM
Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. In 0.9-rc2 and earlier, avahi-daemon can be crashed by sending unsolicited announcements containing CNAME resource records pointing it to resource records with short TTLs. As soon as they expire avahi-daemon crashes.
EPSS 0.02% · 4.9th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS v3.1
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.02%
4.9th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| avahi | avahi | <= 0.9-rc2, 0, 0.9 |
Timeline
- Dec 18, 2025 CVE ID Reserved
- Jan 12, 2026 CVE Published
- Jan 12, 2026 CVE Updated
- Jan 13, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 16, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 19, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 20, 2026 PoC Published
- Jan 22, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 25, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 28, 2026 EPSS Score
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- Feb 3, 2026 EPSS Score