CVE-2025-14876

MEDIUM

5.5

Description

A flaw was found in the virtio-crypto device of QEMU. A malicious guest operating system can exploit a missing length limit in the AKCIPHER path, leading to uncontrolled memory allocation. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) on the host system by causing the QEMU process to terminate unexpectedly.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published2/18/2026

Last Modified2/19/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14876(patrick@puiterwijk.org)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423549(patrick@puiterwijk.org)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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