ping in iputils before 20250602 allows a denial of service (application error or incorrect data collection) via a crafted ICMP Echo Reply packet, because of a signed 64-bit integer overflow in timestamp multiplication.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-47268 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.51%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-04-07 | 0.91% | 0.51% | -0.40% |
| 2 | 2026-03-01 | 0.33% | 0.91% | +0.58% |
| 3 | 2026-01-27 | — | 0.33% | — |
Full EPSS history (14 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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3.9 | 2.5 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
alpine
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— | CVE-2025-47268: 1 source package rows (iputils); 6 state rows across 5 repos (3.19-main, 3.20-main, 3.21-main, 3.22-main, edge-main); fixed 1, open 5. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-47268 |
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2025-47268 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (iputils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 3, resolved 2. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-47268 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-47268 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2025-47268 severity moderate: SUSE including 266 source package names (13.2-9.2:curl-8.14.1-slfo.1.1_3.1, 13.2-9.2:iputils-20221126-slfo.1.1_2.1, …), 581 product×package rows across 322 product lines (Container suse/hpc/warewulf4-x86_64/sle-hpc-node, Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server, … (322 product lines)): Fixed 360, Known Affected 221. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-47268/ |
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2025-47268 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (iputils), 10 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 5, released 4, ignored 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-47268 |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242300 | Issue Tracking |
| https://github.com/Zephkek/ping-rtt-overflow/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/iputils/iputils/commit/070cfacd7348386173231fb16fad4983d4e6ae40 | Patch |
| https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/584 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch |
| https://github.com/iputils/iputils/pull/585 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch |
| https://github.com/iputils/iputils/releases/tag/20250602 | Release Notes |