{"id":"CVE-2025-68468","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-68468","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:20:48.124Z","title":"In 0.9-rc2 and earlier, avahi-daemon can be crashed by sending unsolicited announcements containing CNAME resource records pointing it to resource records with short TTLs.","description":"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, avahi-daemon can be crashed by sending unsolicited announcements containing CNAME resource records pointing it to resource records with short TTLs. As soon as they expire avahi-daemon crashes.","published":"2026-01-12T18:15:48.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:59:07.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-617"],"affected":["avahi/avahi"],"epss":{"score":0.0038,"percentile":0.31766,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/f66be13d7f31a3ef806d226bf8b67240179d309a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/683","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-cp79-r4x9-vf52","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68468","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}