CVE-2025-55014
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.7 Medium
- Published
- Aug 4, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Reserved
- Aug 4, 2025
Description
The YouDao plugin for StarDict, as used in stardict 3.0.7+git20220909+dfsg-6 in Debian trixie and elsewhere, sends an X11 selection to the dict.youdao.com and dict.cn servers via cleartext HTTP.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.7 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N | mitre |
Weaknesses
- CWE-402 Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
StarDictStarDict |
|
References
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/04/1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/08/msg00076.html
- https://packages.debian.org/trixie/stardict
- https://packages.debian.org/trixie/stardict-gtk
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1110370
- https://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/index_en.php
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872313
- https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/08/2
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