CVE record · CVE-2025-5994

Cache poisoning via the ECS-enabled Rebirthday Attack

CVSS 8.7 HighEPSS 0.0022 · 12th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: NLnet Labs) at 16 Jul 2025, 14:38 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
NLnet Labs Unbound
  • affected 1.6.2 to before 1.23.0 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-5994
CNA
NLnet Labs
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-349
Published
16 Jul 2025
Updated
3 Nov 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.7 High 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/R:U/V:C CNA (NLnet Labs)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0022, the 12th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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