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🛡️ CVE-2025-54349 on Ubuntu — iperf3

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

In iperf before 3.19.1, iperf_auth.c has an off-by-one error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-54349 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package iperf3. The fix is available in version 3.18-2ubuntu0.1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-54349 is classified as CWE-193: Off-by-one Error. A product calculates or uses an incorrect maximum or minimum value that is 1 more, or 1 less, than the correct value.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-54349 is recorded against 1 package.

  • iperf3 (fixed in 3.18-2ubuntu0.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 August 2025 and last revised on 22 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

iperf3 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-193: Off-by-one Error) in other software:

CVE-2025-54349 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-08-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-04-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
iperf3 — 3.18-2ubuntu0.1

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