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CVE-2025-65409

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-65409 is a high-severity divide-by-zero vulnerability in GNU Recutils v1.9, allowing unauthenticated attackers to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by providing an empty password during encryption/decryption. This network-exploitable flaw has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a significant impact on availability. While no public exploits, Metasploit modules, or Nuclei templates are currently available, and there is minimal community discussion, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 85/100 suggests potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:recutils:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 6th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2025-65409Moderate

Recutils: Recutils: Denial of Service due to divide-by-zero with empty password input

Dec 30, 2025

References

ftp.gnu.org / gnu/recutils
Product
github.com / MAXEUR5/Vulnerability_Disclosures/blob/main/2025/CVE-2025-65409.md
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/bug-recutils/2025-10/msg00004.html
Mailing ListPatch
gnu.org / software/recutils
Product