CVE-2025-52570: letmein connection limiter allows an arbitrary amount of simultaneous connections
(updated )
The connection limiter is implemented incorrectly.
It allows an arbitrary amount of simultaneously incoming connections (TCP, UDP and Unix socket) for the services letmeind
and letmeinfwd
.
Therefore, the command line option num-connections
is not effective and does not limit the number of simultaneously incoming connections.
letmeind
is the public network facing daemon (TCP/UDP).
letmeinfwd
is the internal firewall daemon that only listens on local Unix socket.
Possible Denial Of Service by resource exhaustion.
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