CVE-2025-68471CWE-617

Avahi has a reachable assertion in lookup_start

Medium · published January 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
33.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00405 · 33.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-617 · Reachable Assertion
Published
2026-01-12T17:39Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JAN 17:39Z
    Avahi has a reachable assertion in lookup_start
    cvelistv5