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.

EPSS: 0.001 (3.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

patrick@puiterwijk.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
patrick@puiterwijk.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, 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.