CVE-2025-12748

MEDIUM 1 PoC
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 46/100
Published: 2025-11-11 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

A flaw was discovered in libvirt in the XML file processing. More specifically, the parsing of user provided XML files was performed before the ACL checks. A malicious user with limited permissions could exploit this flaw by submitting a specially crafted XML file, causing libvirt to allocate too much memory on the host. The excessive memory consumption could lead to a libvirt process crash on the host, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
— — 0

References & Advisories (4)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18326
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18748
vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2413801
issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT

Proof of Concept (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

46 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction
✓ PoC available (1)

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.22%
Raw Score 0.002230
Percentile 13.1%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00223
2026-11-13
0.00223
2026-11-12
0.00223
2026-11-10
0.00223
2026-11-09
0.00223
2026-11-08
0.00223
2026-11-07
0.00223
2026-11-06
0.00223
2026-11-05
0.00223

Intelligence Sources

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