SB2025112462 - Fedora EPEL 8 update for civetweb
Published: November 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2025112462
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-9648)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP POST requests with a null byte in the payload within the mg_handle_form_request() function. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the application and consume all available CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.