CVE-2025-68138 EVerest affected by memory exhaustion in libocpp

Medium 4.7 Published Updated
Exploited in the wild
Not known
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2025-68138?

CVE-2025-68138 is a medium-severity vulnerability in everest-core, published on 21 Jan 2026.

Official description

EVerest is an EV charging software stack, and EVerest libocpp is a C++ implementation of the Open Charge Point Protocol. In libocpp prior to version 0.30.1, pointers returned by the `strdup` calls are never freed. At each connection attempt, the newly allocated memory area will be leaked, potentially causing memory exhaustion and denial of service. Version 0.30.1 fixes the issue.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68138?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linuxfoundation Libocpp.

How do I fix CVE-2025-68138?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-68138 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-68138 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68138 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f8c2-44c3-7v55.

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