VulnerabilityPublished 5 Mar 2026Updated 5 May 2026

CVE-2025-61729: image-builder security update

Affects image-builderSource GCVE Database

Mentioned vulnerabilities

Authoritative record:CVE-2025-61729· High 7.5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High : upgrade to 31-3.el9_7 soon.

Data as of 27 Oct 2026, 01:36 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.5High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Patch: Available – fixed in 31-3.el9_7

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 2 Dec 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.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

almalinux-9

What to do

Upgrade the AlmaLinux image-builder package to 31-3.el9_7.

Patches and advisories

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3839 (opens in a new tab)

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
AlmaLinux 9image-builder	Affected <31-3.el9_7	Fixed in 31-3.el9_7

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AI-suggested

A security update is available and should be applied to affected systems. The fixed version is 31-3.el9_7. Users should upgrade image-builder to this version or later to remediate these vulnerabilities. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.

Description

The image-builder tool, used for creating customized OS artifacts such as VM images and OSTree commits, has a security update addressing multiple vulnerabilities in underlying Go libraries. Notably, CVE-2025-61729 is a denial of service vulnerability caused by excessive resource consumption when processing crafted certificates in the crypto/x509 package. Other related fixes address memory exhaustion in net/url parsing and unexpected session resumption in crypto/tls. The issue affects versions of image-builder prior to 31-3.el9_7.

Impact

The primary impact is a denial of service condition caused by excessive resource consumption when processing specially crafted certificates, potentially leading to application or system instability. Additional vulnerabilities in related Go packages could cause memory exhaustion or unexpected session behavior, further affecting the reliability of the image-builder tool. There is no indication of remote code execution or data compromise from the provided information.

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