Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libvirt package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-13901285
  • published14 Nov 2025
  • disclosed7 Nov 2025
  • creditArtem Mukhin

Introduced: 7 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2025-12748  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (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 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the XML file parsing process. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation on the host because the parsing is done before access control checks are performed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1