CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-48945
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-06-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
pycares is a Python module which provides an interface to c-ares. c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolutions asynchronously. Prior to version 4.9.0, pycares is vulnerable to a use-after-free condition that occurs when a Channel object is garbage collected while DNS queries are still pending. This results in a fatal Python error and interpreter crash. The vulnerability has been fixed in pycares 4.9.0 by implementing a safe channel destruction mechanism.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiodns/commit/f259a6e3650555157af53ac2b39f2ff545321d55 github.com
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiodns/releases/tag/v3.5.0 github.com
- https://github.com/saghul/pycares/commit/ebfd7d71eb8e74bc1057a361ea79a5906db510d4 github.com
- https://github.com/saghul/pycares/releases/tag/v4.9.0 github.com
- https://github.com/saghul/pycares/security/advisories/GHSA-5qpg-rh4j-qp35 github.com
- https://github.com/saghul/pycares/security/advisories/GHSA-5qpg-rh4j-qp35 github.com
- https://github.com/saghul/pycares/security/advisories/GHSA-5qpg-rh4j-qp35 github.com
- https://github.com/saghul/pycares/security/advisories/GHSA-5qpg-rh4j-qp35 github.com