VTun-ng’s failure to initialize encryption modules may cause reversion to plaintext

CVE Details

Basic Information

Title VTun-ng’s failure to initialize encryption modules may cause reversion to plaintext
Type cve
Published 2025-08-05T00:02:38.457Z
Modified 2025-08-05T00:02:38.457Z

Product Information

Vendor leakingmemory
Product vtun-ng
Version >= 3.0.12, < 3.0.18

CVSS Information

Base Score 8.7 (HIGH)
Attack Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

  • leakingmemory vtun-ng >= 3.0.12, < 3.0.18

Additional Information

CWE List CWE-636
Source GitHub_M

Description

VTun-ng is a Virtual Tunnel over TCP/IP network. In versions 3.0.17 and below, failure to initialize encryption modules might cause reversion to plaintext due to insufficient error handling. The bug was first introduced in VTun-ng version 3.0.12. This is fixed in version 3.0.18. To workaround this issue, avoid blowfish-256.

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