CVE-2025-68468 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Avahi versions 0.9-rc2 and earlier, affecting the avahi-daemon component. An attacker can crash the daemon by sending specially crafted unsolicited announcements containing CNAME records that point to resource records with short Time-To-Live (TTL) values. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to high availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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