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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
VLAI
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
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
sparkle-project Sparkle Affected: 0 , < 2.6.4 (semver)
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