UBUNTU-CVE-2025-41259

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-41259
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-41259.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-41259
Upstream
  • CVE-2025-41259
Published
2026-06-03T13:16:00Z
Modified
2026-06-12T09:04:00.725363850Z
Severity
  • 7.3 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

SWUpdate before 2026.05 is affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that allows local unprivileged attackers to escalate privileges to root or install untrusted contents using a signed update.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / swupdate

Package

Name
swupdate
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/swupdate?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2020.*
2020.11-2
2021.*
2021.04-1.1
2021.04-2
2021.04-2build1
2021.11-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2021.11-1",
            "binary_name": "libswupdate0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2021.11-1",
            "binary_name": "lua-swupdate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2021.11-1",
            "binary_name": "swupdate"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-41259.json"

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / swupdate

Package

Name
swupdate
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/swupdate?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2023.*
2023.05+dfsg-3
2023.05+dfsg-4
2023.05+dfsg-4build1
2023.05+dfsg-5
2023.12+dfsg-1
2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1
2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu4
2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5",
            "binary_name": "libswupdate0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5",
            "binary_name": "lua-swupdate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5",
            "binary_name": "swupdate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5",
            "binary_name": "swupdate-www"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-41259.json"

Ubuntu:25.10 / swupdate

Package

Name
swupdate
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/swupdate?arch=source&distro=questing

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2024.*
2024.12.1+dfsg-1build2
2024.12.1+dfsg-2
2024.12.1+dfsg-3
2025.*
2025.05+dfsg-2ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2025.05+dfsg-2ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libswupdate0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2025.05+dfsg-2ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "lua-swupdate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2025.05+dfsg-2ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "swupdate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2025.05+dfsg-2ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "swupdate-www"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-41259.json"

Ubuntu:26.04:LTS / swupdate

Package

Name
swupdate
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/swupdate?arch=source&distro=resolute

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2025.*
2025.05+dfsg-2ubuntu1
2025.05+dfsg-3ubuntu1
2025.12+dfsg-1ubuntu1
2025.12+dfsg-2ubuntu1
2025.12+dfsg-3ubuntu1
2025.12+dfsg-4ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2025.12+dfsg-4ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libswupdate0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2025.12+dfsg-4ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "lua-swupdate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2025.12+dfsg-4ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "swupdate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2025.12+dfsg-4ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "swupdate-www"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-41259.json"