CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-54351

Unprotected Alternate Channel

Published: Aug 03, 2025 | Modified: Aug 05, 2025

CVSS 3.x

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

8.9 IMPORTANT

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54351
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/420.html

In iperf before 3.19.1, net.c has a buffer overflow when –skip-rx-copy is used (for MSG_TRUNC in recv).

Weakness

The product protects a primary channel, but it does not use the same level of protection for an alternate channel.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Iperf	Iperf_project	*	3.19.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

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