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CVE-2025-0781Incorrect Authorization in SimGear
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 70% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An attacker can bypass the sandboxing of Nasal scripts and arbitrarily write to any file path that the user has permission to modify at the operating-system level.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitLab
Published
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitLabCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 2020.3.19
What to do
Solution: Upgrade to FlightGear version 2020.3.20 or 2024.1.1.
References
References5
- https://gitlab.com/flightgear/simgear/-/commit/5bb023647114267141a7610e8f1ca7d6f4f5a5a8 (opens in a new tab)
- https://gitlab.com/flightgear/flightgear/-/commit/ad37afce28083fad7f79467b3ffdead753584358 (opens in a new tab)
- GitLab Issue #3025 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingpermissions-required
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00028.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00029.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-1857 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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