CVE-2025-54870: VTun-ng's failure to initialize encryption modules may cause reversion to plaintext

Severity: high (CVSS 8.7 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-636

Description

VTun-ng is a Virtual Tunnel over TCP/IP network. In versions 3.0.17 and below, failure to initialize encryption modules might cause reversion to plaintext due to insufficient error handling. The bug was first introduced in VTun-ng version 3.0.12. This is fixed in version 3.0.18. To workaround this issue, avoid blowfish-256.

Affected products

leakingmemory vtun-ng: from 3.0.12, < 3.0.18

References

https://github.com/leakingmemory/vtun-ng/commit/8c63982b6c487c52db1d56ab94c266f0bc857140
https://github.com/leakingmemory/vtun-ng/security/advisories/GHSA-m3jc-27c6-2wrf

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