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CVE-2025-12970: CVE-2025-12970

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-24 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

The extract_name function in Fluent Bit in_docker input plugin copies container names into a fixed size stack buffer without validating length. An attacker who can create containers or control container names, can supply a long name that overflows the buffer, leading to process crash or arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• FluentBit Fluent Bit: 4.1.0

References

• https://fluentbit.io/blog/2025/10/28/security-vulnerabilities-addressed-in-fluent-bit-v4.1-and-backported-to-v4.0/
• https://www.oligo.security/blog/critical-vulnerabilities-in-fluent-bit-expose-cloud-environments-to-remote-takeover

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