CVE-2025-54409

aide: null pointer dereference allows local DoS

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 14, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in AIDE. This vulnerability allows an attacker to crash the program during report printing or database listing after setting extended file attributes with an empty attribute value or with a key containing a comma. A local user can exploit this issue to cause a local denial of service.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

Currently, no mitigation is available for this vulnerability.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference