External Control of System or Configuration Setting Affecting netavark package, versions <1.15.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-NETAVARK-11502067
  • published7 Aug 2025
  • disclosed28 Jul 2025
  • creditJohannes Kasberger

Introduced: 28 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-8283  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-15  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade netavark to version 1.15.1 or higher.

Overview

netavark is a container network stack.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to External Control of System or Configuration Setting in the DNS resolution process. An attacker can obtain unintended access to sensitive information by causing DNS queries to resolve to external servers under their control.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1