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1 vulnerability by leakingmemory
CVE-2025-54870 (GCVE-0-2025-54870)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-05 00:02 – Updated: 2025-08-05 14:56
VLAI?
Title
VTun-ng's failure to initialize encryption modules may cause reversion to plaintext
Summary
VTun-ng is a Virtual Tunnel over TCP/IP network. In versions 3.0.17 and below, failure to initialize encryption modules might cause reversion to plaintext due to insufficient error handling. The bug was first introduced in VTun-ng version 3.0.12. This is fixed in version 3.0.18. To workaround this issue, avoid blowfish-256.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-636 - Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| leakingmemory | vtun-ng |
Affected:
>= 3.0.12, < 3.0.18
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