State Issues in FreeBSD - CVE-2025-24934
Published: October 23, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU117538
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24934
CWE-ID: CWE-371
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: FreeBSD Foundation
Affected software:
FreeBSD
FreeBSD
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to the OS kernel fails to check the connection state of the sockets when adding them to a load-balancing group, which leads to incoming UDP packets being sent from any host instead of the connected host. A remote attacker can abuse such behavior to perform spoofing attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-24934
Install updates from vendor's website.