What is CVE-2025-68138?

CVE-2025-68138 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Everest Everest-core, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2026-01-21.

How severe is CVE-2025-68138?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Everest Everest-core

CVE-2025-68138

EVerest is an EV charging software stack, and EVerest libocpp is a C++ implementation of the Open Charge Point Protocol. In libocpp prior to version 0.30.1, pointers returned by the `strdup` calls are never freed. At each connection attemp…

EPSS: 0.001 (17.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Everest Everest-core — versions libocpp < 0.30.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

https://github.com/EVerest/everest-core/security/advisories/GHSA-f8c2-44c3-7v55 (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/EVerest/libocpp/blob/89c7b62ec899db637f43b54f19af2c4af30cfa66/lib/ocpp/common/websocket/websocket_libwebsockets.cpp (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68138?: CVE-2025-68138 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Everest Everest-core, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2026-01-21.
How severe is CVE-2025-68138?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.