{"id":"CVE-2025-8865","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-8865","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:11:16.756Z","title":"An authenticated attacker could exploit this issue to crash the YCQL tablet server, resulting in a denial of service.","description":"The YugabyteDB tablet server contains a flaw in its YCQL query handling that can trigger a null pointer dereference when processing certain malformed inputs. An authenticated attacker could exploit this issue to crash the YCQL tablet server, resulting in a denial of service.","published":"2025-08-11T15:15:29.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:07:49.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@yugabyte.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":4.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00161,"percentile":0.05198,"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 (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/secure/vulnerability-disclosure-policy/","source":"security@yugabyte.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8865","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."}