Use After Free in Aio-Libs Aiodns

CVE-2025-48945

pycares is a Python module which provides an interface to c-ares. c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolutions asynchronously. Prior to version 4.9.0, pycares is vulnerable to a use-after-free condition that occurs when a Channel object is garbage collected while DNS queries are still pending. This results in a fatal Python error and interpreter crash. The vulnerability has been fixed in pycares 4.9.0 by implementing a safe channel destruction mechanism.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

EPSS: 0.004 (31.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.