CVSS 4.0
8.2 highCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2025-48945
High (8.2). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in pycares 4.9.0.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-5qpg-rh4j-qp35 | PyPI | pycares | <4.9.0 | 4.9.0 |
References
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiodns/commit/f259a6e3650555157af53ac2b39f2ff545321d55
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiodns/releases/tag/v3.5.0
- https://github.com/saghul/pycares/commit/ebfd7d71eb8e74bc1057a361ea79a5906db510d4
- https://github.com/saghul/pycares/releases/tag/v4.9.0
- https://github.com/saghul/pycares/security/advisories/GHSA-5qpg-rh4j-qp35