What is CVE-2025-68276?

CVE-2025-68276 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Avahi, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-01-12.

How severe is CVE-2025-68276?

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

Vulnerability in Avahi

CVE-2025-68276

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, an unprivileged local users can crash avahi-daemon (with wide-area disabled) by creating record browsers w…

EPSS: 0.001 (3.7th 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

Avahi — versions 0.9, <= 0.9-rc2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68276?: CVE-2025-68276 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Avahi, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-01-12.
How severe is CVE-2025-68276?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.