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CVE-2025-62408

MEDIUM 5.9

Our Analysis: General-Purpose

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Published Date December 8, 2025
Last Modified December 9, 2025
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. Versions 1.32.3 through 1.34.5 terminate a query after maximum attempts when using read_answer() and process_answer(), which can cause a Denial of Service. This issue is fixed in version 1.34.6.