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CVE-2025-46807 json

File Descriptor Exhaustion in sslh-select and sslh-ev triggers SEGFAULT

published last yr. modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2025-16631

cvss
8.7
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in sslh allows attackers to easily exhaust the file descriptors in sslh and deny legitimate users service.This issue affects sslh before 2.2.4.

Patch / fix

  • https://github.com/yrutschle/sslh/releases/tag/v2.2.4 sslh 2.2.4
  • sslh Debian 14 2.3.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-46807

  • sslh openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.2.4-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15194-1

  • sslh Arch Linux 2.2.4-1

arch linux advisories AVG-2902

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red hat product security vex CVE-2025-46807 updated cvss 5.3

sslh: File Descriptor Exhaustion in sslh-select and sslh-ev triggers SEGFAULT

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • https://github.com/yrutschle/sslh/releases/tag/v2.2.4 sslh

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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