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CVE-2025-55014The 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…
- 4.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Affected products
References
References9
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/04/1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/08/msg00076.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://packages.debian.org/trixie/stardict (opens in a new tab)
- https://packages.debian.org/trixie/stardict-gtk (opens in a new tab)
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1110370 (opens in a new tab)
- https://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/index_en.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872313 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/ (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/08/2 (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-2025-23543 (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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