CVE-2025-68276
5.5 · MEDIUMOverview
CVE-2025-68276 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting avahi avahi. It was published on January 12, 2026 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).
This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.
Technical 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, an unprivileged local users can crash avahi-daemon (with wide-area disabled) by creating record browsers with the AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA flag set via D-Bus. This can be done by either calling
the RecordBrowserNew method directly or creating hostname/address/service resolvers/browsers that create those browsers internally themselves.
Remediation
Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from avahi. Update avahi to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| avahi | avahi | >= 0, < 0.9 | Affected |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is CVE-2025-68276?
CVE-2025-68276 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting avahi avahi. It was published on January 12, 2026 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).
How severe is CVE-2025-68276?
This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.
How do I fix or remediate CVE-2025-68276?
Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from avahi. Update avahi to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.
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