MUNGE is an authentication service for creating and validating user credentials. From 0.5 to 0.5.17, local attacker can exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability in munged (the MUNGE authentication daemon) to leak cryptographic key material from process memory. With the leaked key material, the attacker could forge arbitrary MUNGE credentials to impersonate any user (including root) to services that rely on MUNGE for authentication. The vulnerability allows a buffer overflow by sending a crafted message with an oversized address length field, corrupting munged's internal state and enabling extraction of the MAC subkey used for credential verification. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.18.
CVE-2026-25506
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
This high-severity CVE scores 7.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.3% (27th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.
Also known asEUVD-2026-6734 (ENISA EUVD)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 35EG Risk 35/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity78% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation0.3% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 27th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-30). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
February 10, 2026
Last Modified
July 15, 2026
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Jun 12, 2026[SECURITY] [DLA 4477-1] munge security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/02/msg00015.htmloss-security - Re: CVE-2026-25506: MUNGE 0.5-0.5.17 buffer overflow allowing key leakage
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/17/6oss-security - CVE-2026-25506: MUNGE 0.5-0.5.17 buffer overflow allowing key leakage
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/10/3Buffer overflow in message unpacking allows key leakage and credential forgery · Advisory · dun/munge · GitHub
https://github.com/dun/munge/security/advisories/GHSA-r9cr-jf4v-75ghmunge-0.5.18
Patch available: dun/munge munge-0.5.18
https://github.com/dun/munge/releases/tag/munge-0.5.18commit bf40cc27c4ce (dun/munge)
Patch available: dun/munge munge-0.5.18 (contains commit bf40cc27c4ce)
https://github.com/dun/munge/commit/bf40cc27c4ce8451d4b062c9de0b67ec40894812Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-25506(7)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:16174Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.3.3 (Spyre)
- RHSA-2026:3034Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: munge security update
- RHSA-2026:3032Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: munge security update
- RHSA-2026:3033Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: munge security update
- RHSA-2026:2954Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: munge security update
- RHSA-2026:2923Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: munge security update
- RHSA-2026:2918Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: munge security update
Patch Availability(14)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | munge (0.5.11-3ubuntu0.1+esm1) @ xenial | 2026-10-30 | ubuntu |
| redhat | rhaiis/vllm-spyre-rhel9:1778244546 | 2026-05-12 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-3.el8_10 | 2026-02-23 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-14.el9_7 | 2026-02-23 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.15-11.el10_1 | 2026-02-23 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-2.el8_8.1 | 2026-02-19 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-1.el8_2.1 | 2026-02-19 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-2.el8_4.1 | 2026-02-19 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-2.el8_6.1 | 2026-02-19 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-13.el9_4.1 | 2026-02-18 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.15-10.el10_0.1 | 2026-02-18 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-13.el9_0.1 | 2026-02-18 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-13.el9_2.1 | 2026-02-18 | redhat |
| redhat | munge-0:0.5.13-13.el9_6.1 | 2026-02-18 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| munge | 0.5.14-4 |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| munge | 0.5.15-2 |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| munge | 0.5.16-1 |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| munge | 0.5.16-1, 0.5.16-1.1~deb13u1 |
| — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(7)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2026:2934IMPORTANT2026-02-10
RHSA-2026:2934 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:2949IMPORTANT2026-02-10
RHSA-2026:2949 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:3010IMPORTANT2026-02-10
RHSA-2026:3010 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:3011IMPORTANT2026-02-10
RHSA-2026:3011 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:3012IMPORTANT2026-02-10
RHSA-2026:3012 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:3013IMPORTANT2026-02-10
RHSA-2026:3013 — Important
- UbuntuUSN-8040-1MEDIUM
MUNGE vulnerability
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 43× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 99 of 222 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 123 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
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