CVE-2025-66959 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue in ollama v.0.12.10 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the GGUF decoder

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

No data.

No data.

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/9820
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66959
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-66959
https://zero.shotlearni.ng/blog/cve-2025-66959panic-dos-via-unchecked-length-in-gguf-decoder-copy/

History

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		ollama: ollama: Denial of Service via GGUF decoder
Weaknesses		CWE-130
References		https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66959 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-66959
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	threat_severity `Moderate`

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-20 CWE-400
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		An issue in ollama v.0.12.10 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the GGUF decoder
References		https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/9820 https://zero.shotlearni.ng/blog/cve-2025-66959panic-dos-via-unchecked-length-in-gguf-decoder-copy/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2026-01-21T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2026-01-22T14:41:22.418Z

Reserved: 2025-12-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-66959

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-22T14:40:50.280Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-01-21T18:16:23.470

Modified: 2026-01-22T15:16:48.550

Link: CVE-2025-66959

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-01-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-66959 - Bugzilla

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