CVE-2025-61553: Out-of-bounds Write
Source CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.2 High.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 11% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 16 Oct 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
- Restrict local access to guest virtual machines to trusted users only, minimizing the risk of a local attacker exploiting this vulnerability.
- Monitor and audit PCI configuration space accesses within guest VMs to detect anomalous or suspicious behavior indicative of exploitation attempts.
- Implement strict access controls and segmentation to limit the ability of compromised guests to affect the host or other guests.
- Apply any available patches or updates from BitVisor maintainers as soon as they are released; if no patches exist, consider disabling or limiting VirtIO network device emulation if feasible.
- Employ runtime security monitoring tools capable of detecting hypervisor crashes or unusual memory corruption patterns.
- Conduct thorough security reviews and penetration testing focused on hypervisor and virtualization components to identify and remediate similar vulnerabilities.
- Maintain up-to-date backups and incident response plans to quickly recover from potential denial of service or compromise scenarios.
Description
An out-of-bounds write in VirtIO network device emulation in BitVisor from commit 108df6 (2020-05-20) to commit 480907 (2025-07-06) allows local attackers to cause a denial of service (host hypervisor crash) via a crafted PCI configuration space access. Given it's a heap overflow in a privileged hypervisor context, exploitation may enable arbitrary code execution or guest-to-host privilege escalation.