NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting 9fans/plan9port package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-9FANSPLAN9PORT-11426541
  • published3 Aug 2025
  • disclosed9 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-7209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the value_decode function in src/libsec/port/x509.c. An attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering a null pointer dereference through local access.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1