CVE-2025-65409

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Dec 30, 2025
Updated: Jan 2, 2026
Reserved: Nov 18, 2025

Description

A divide-by-zero in the encryption/decryption routines of GNU Recutils v1.9 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via inputting an empty value as a password.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-369 Divide By Zero

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recutils/
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-recutils/2025-10/msg00004.html
https://github.com/MAXEUR5/Vulnerability_Disclosures/blob/main/2025/CVE-2025-65409.md

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