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1 vulnerability found for devscripts by Debian
CVE-2025-8454 (GCVE-0-2025-8454)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-01 05:41 – Updated: 2025-08-01 13:47
VLAI?
Summary
It was discovered that uscan, a tool to scan/watch upstream sources for new releases of software, included in devscripts (a collection of scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier), skips OpenPGP verification if the upstream source is already downloaded from a previous run even if the verification failed back then.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | devscripts |
Affected:
0
|
Credits
Uwe Kleine-König
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