CVE-2025-14551 (GCVE-0-2025-14551)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-09 15:03 – Updated: 2026-04-10 13:54
VLAI
Title
Senstive information disclosure was affecting subiquity
Summary
In Ubuntu, Subiquity version 24.04.4 could leak sensitive user credentials during crash reporting. Upon installation failure, if a user submitted a bug report to Launchpad, Subiquity could include certain user credentials, such as the user's plaintext Wi-Fi password, in the attached logs.
Severity
2.7 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-10 13:53 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1258 - Exposure of sensitive system information due to uncleared debug information
Assigner
canonical CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 80/100 over 103 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Canonical Ubuntu Affected: 0 , ≤ 24.04.4 (custom)
Affected: 0 , ≤ 25.10 (custom)
Affected: 0 , ≤ 25.04 (custom)
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