DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61765

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-61765
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61765.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61765
Upstream
Published
2025-10-06T16:15:35.400Z
Modified
2026-01-05T08:01:38.329269Z
Severity
  • 6.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

python-socketio is a Python implementation of the Socket.IO realtime client and server. A remote code execution vulnerability in python-socketio versions prior to 5.14.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary Python code through malicious pickle deserialization in multi-server deployments on which the attacker previously gained access to the message queue that the servers use for internal communications. When Socket.IO servers are configured to use a message queue backend such as Redis for inter-server communication, messages sent between the servers are encoded using the pickle Python module. When a server receives one of these messages through the message queue, it assumes it is trusted and immediately deserializes it. The vulnerability stems from deserialization of messages using Python's pickle.loads() function. Having previously obtained access to the message queue, the attacker can send a python-socketio server a crafted pickle payload that executes arbitrary code during deserialization via Python's __reduce__ method. This vulnerability only affects deployments with a compromised message queue. The attack can lead to the attacker executing random code in the context of, and with the privileges of a Socket.IO server process. Single-server systems that do not use a message queue, and multi-server systems with a secure message queue are not vulnerable. In addition to making sure standard security practices are followed in the deployment of the message queue, users of the python-socketio package can upgrade to version 5.14.0 or newer, which remove the pickle module and use the much safer JSON encoding for inter-server messaging.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / python-socketio

Package

Name
python-socketio
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-socketio?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.0.3-2
5.7.2-1
5.7.2-2
5.11.2-1
5.11.2-1.1
5.12.1-1
5.13.0-1
5.16.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61765.json"

Debian:12 / python-socketio

Package

Name
python-socketio
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-socketio?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.7.2-2
5.11.2-1
5.11.2-1.1
5.12.1-1
5.13.0-1
5.16.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61765.json"

Debian:13 / python-socketio

Package

Name
python-socketio
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-socketio?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.12.1-1
5.13.0-1
5.16.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61765.json"

Debian:14 / python-socketio

Package

Name
python-socketio
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-socketio?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.16.0-1

Affected versions

5.*
5.12.1-1
5.13.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61765.json"