Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,10.0.8)[10.1.0-rc0 ,10.1.4)[10.2.0-rc1,10.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-14535466
  • published19 Dec 2025
  • disclosed14 Dec 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-14876  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 10.0.8, 10.1.4, 10.2.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the virtio-crypto device due to the improper boundaries check in AKCIPHER path. An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory allocation by sending specially crafted requests from a malicious guest operating system, which may lead to unexpected termination of the host process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1