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CVE-2025-68276

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-68276 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Avahi versions 0.9-rc2 and earlier, a system for local network service discovery. An unprivileged local user can crash the avahi-daemon by creating specific record browsers via D-Bus with the AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA flag. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a low-complexity attack requiring local user privileges to achieve high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:avahi:avahi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:avahi:avahi:0.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
3.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0014 is in the 24th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (15)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 avahi 0.8-5 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 0.8-5
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20826-17084Fixed in: 0.8-6
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20862-17084Fixed in: 0.8-6
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20861-17086Fixed in: 0.8-5
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 avahi 0.8-5 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 0.8-6
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 avahi 0.8-6 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 0.8-6
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 avahi 0.8-7 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 0.8-6
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17556-17084Fixed in: 0.8-6
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: avahi
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: avahi
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: avahi
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: avahi
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: rhcos
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: avahi

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2026-Jan/CVE-2025-68276Moderate

Avahi has a reachable assertion in avahi_wide_area_scan_cache

Jan 13, 2026
redhatCVE-2025-68276Moderate

avahi: Avahi: Denial of Service via D-Bus record browsers with AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA flag

Jan 12, 2026

References

github.com / avahi/avahi/commit/ede7048475c5d47d53890e3bc1350dda8e0b3688
Patch
github.com / avahi/avahi/pull/806
Issue TrackingPatch
github.com / avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-mhf3-865v-g5rc
Vendor Advisory