What is CVE-2025-14876?

CVE-2025-14876 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-02-18.

How severe is CVE-2025-14876?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVE-2025-14876

A flaw was found in the virtio-crypto device of QEMU. A malicious guest operating system can exploit a missing length limit in the AKCIPHER path, leading to uncontrolled memory allocation. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) on the host system by causing the QEMU process to terminate unexpectedly.

Published 2026-02-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (2.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 3rd percentile — 2.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14876 (vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-14876?: CVE-2025-14876 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-02-18.
How severe is CVE-2025-14876?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.