CVE-2025-68134 EVerest's use of assert functions can potentially lead to denial of service
Attackers can crash the EV charging manager by triggering assertion failures, causing a denial of service for all connected charging stations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-68134?
CVE-2025-68134 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in everest-core, published on 21 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
EVerest is an EV charging software stack. Prior to version 2025.10.0, the use of the `assert` function to handle errors frequently causes the module to crash. This is particularly critical because the manager shuts down all other modules and exits when any one of them terminates, leading to a denial of service. In a context where a manager handles multiple EVSE, this would also impact other users. Version 2025.10.0 fixes the issue.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68134?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linuxfoundation Everest.
How do I fix CVE-2025-68134?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-68134 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-68134 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-68134 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in everest-core
- CVE-2026-22790 EVerest's unchecked SLAC payload length causes stack overflow in HomeplugMessage::setup_payload
- CVE-2026-22593 EVerest has off-by-one stack buffer overflow in IsoMux certificate filename parsing
- CVE-2026-23995 EVerest has stack buffer overflow in ifreq.ifr_name when interface name exceeds IFNAMSIZ
- CVE-2025-68137 EVerest's Integer Overflow and Signed to Unsigned conversion lead to either stack buffer overflow or infinite loop
- CVE-2026-33009 EVerest: MQTT Switch-Phases Command Data Race Causing Charger State Corruptio
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cxc5-rrj5-8pf3.