CVE-2025-14876

MEDIUM

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6-9 and OpenShift Container Platform 4 - Denial of Service via virtio-crypto AKCIPHER Path

Title source: llm

Description

A flaw was found in the virtio-crypto device of QEMU. A malicious guest operating system can exploit a missing length limit in the AKCIPHER path, leading to uncontrolled memory allocation. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) on the host system by causing the QEMU process to terminate unexpectedly.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14876

Issue Tracking issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423549

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0014

EPSS Percentile 3.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-770

Status published

Products (6)

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Red Hat/Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Published Feb 18, 2026

Tracked Since Feb 19, 2026