VDB
CVE-2025-68471
CVE-2025-68471
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 2 unsolicited announcements with CNAME resource records 2 seconds apart.
EPSS 0.02% · 6.3th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
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%
6.3th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| avahi | avahi | <= 0.9-rc2, 0, 0.9 |
Exploit Intelligence
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-68471 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-68471 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2025-68471 (circl-sighting)
- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-56rf-42xr-qmmg (circl)
- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/678 (circl)
- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/9c6eb53bf2e290aed84b1f207e3ce35c54cc0aa1 (circl)
- avahi.rb (github-poc)
- avahi.rb (github-poc)
- avahi.rb (github-poc)
- avahi.rb (github-poc)
…and 4 more exploits
Timeline
- Jan 12, 2026 CVE Published
- Jan 13, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 16, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 16, 2026 CVE Updated
- Jan 19, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 22, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 25, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 28, 2026 EPSS Score
- Jan 31, 2026 EPSS Score
- Feb 3, 2026 EPSS Score
- Feb 6, 2026 EPSS Score
- Feb 9, 2026 EPSS Score