CVE-2025-0638

Routinator crashes when illegal characters are present in manifest file names

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: January 22, 2025 at 03:48 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:26 AM UTC
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The initial code parsing the manifest did not check the content of the file names yet later code assumed that it was checked and panicked when encountering illegal characters, resulting in a crash of Routinator.

Affected

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CVSS

7.5HIGHNLnet Labs
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-1286

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