🛡️ CVE-2025-31961 — connections

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-31961 is classified as CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control. The product implements access controls via a policy or other feature with the intention to disable or restrict accesses (reads and/or writes) to assets in a system from untrusted agents.

Affected software

CVE-2025-31961 is recorded against 1 package.

• connections

Timeline and source

Published on 15 August 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

connections has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-21788 (5.4 Medium, published 19 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-52603 (3.5 Low, published 20 Feb 2026)
• CVE-2025-52639 (3.5 Low, published 18 Nov 2025)
• CVE-2024-42209 (3.5 Low, published 17 Jul 2025)
• CVE-2024-42208 (3.5 Low, published 4 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2024-42188 (3.7 Low, published 14 Nov 2024)
• CVE-2024-30106 (3.5 Low, published 28 Oct 2024)
• CVE-2024-30118 (3.5 Low, published 9 Oct 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control) in other software:

• CVE-2026-16560 (5.3 Medium, published 22 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-50405 (7.8 High, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-48581 (7.8 High, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-56155 (7.8 High, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-55006 (7.8 High, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-50502 (8.0 High, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-14615 (4.3 Medium, published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-9088 (2.7 Low, published 5 Jun 2026)

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