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CVE-2025-54409

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-54409 is a null pointer dereference vulnerability affecting AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) versions 0.13 through 0.19.1. A local attacker can trigger a denial of service by crafting extended file attributes with empty values or keys containing commas, causing the program to crash during report printing or database listing. This vulnerability is rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5) due to its local attack vector and high impact on availability, with low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.13, < 0.19.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:advanced_intrusion_detection_environment_project:advanced_intrusion_detection_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.2MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
14.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0023 is in the 62nd 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 (13)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 aide 0.16-17 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 0.16-17
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20535-17086Fixed in: 0.16-17
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 aide 0.18.6-2 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 0.18.6-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 aide 0.18.6-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 0.18.6-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 aide 0.16-16 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 0.16-17
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20430-17084Fixed in: 0.18.6-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20262-17084Fixed in: 0.18.6-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20264-17086Fixed in: 0.16-17
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: aide
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: aide
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: aide
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: aide

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2025-54409Moderate

aide: null pointer dereference allows local DoS

Aug 14, 2025
microsoft2025-Aug/CVE-2025-54409Moderate

AIDE null pointer dereference when reading incorrectly encoded xattr attributes from database (local DoS)

Aug 12, 2025

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00011.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2025/08/14/8
github.com / aide/aide/commit/54a6d0d9d5f14b81961d66373c0291bf4af4135a
Patch
github.com / aide/aide/releases/tag/v0.19.2
Release Notes
github.com / aide/aide/security/advisories/GHSA-79g7-f8rv-jcxh
ExploitMitigationVendor Advisory