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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-0509 (CVE-2025-0509)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-02-04 20:15 – Updated: 2025-12-02 05:18 – Source website

Details

A security issue was found in Sparkle before version 2.6.4. An attacker can replace an existing signed update with another payload, bypassing Sparkle’s (Ed)DSA signing checks.

Severity

7.3 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.8 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-0509	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-0509	REPORT

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CVE-2025-0509 (GCVE-0-2025-0509)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-04 20:01 – Updated: 2025-02-17 12:03

Title

Signing Checks Bypass

Summary

A security issue was found in Sparkle before version 2.6.4. An attacker can replace an existing signed update with another payload, bypassing Sparkle’s (Ed)DSA signing checks.

Severity

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-04 20:29 UTC

CWE

CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

Assigner

fedora CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard C 69/100 over 38 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle/pull/2550
https://sparkle-project.org/documentation/securit…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025012…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
sparkle-project	Sparkle	Affected: 0 , < 2.6.4 (semver)

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