Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-61028 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-61028 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-61028?
- Informational severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 23 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- OpenLink Software Virtuoso OpenSource 7.2.11.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-61028?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2025-61028 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-61028?
- Check whether you run OpenLink Software Virtuoso OpenSource at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A vulnerability exists in the time_t_to_dt component of OpenLink Virtuoso OpenSource v7.2.11. The issue is triggered during a box_cast operation when processing specific malformed DATE values in an INSERT statement, leading to a null pointer dereference or similar memory corruption that crashes the database engine. An attacker with the ability to execute SQL queries against the database can trigger this crash remotely. The vulnerability was identified via fuzzing and confirmed in the beta Docker image for version 7.2.11.
Affected products
- OpenLink Virtuoso OpenSource 7.2.11
Timeline
- 2024-01-07: disclosed: Issue reported on GitHub with PoC
- 2026-06-23: advisory: CVE published by NVD