🛡️ CVE-2025-32438

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-32438 is classified as CWE-378: Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions. Opening temporary files without appropriate measures or controls can leave the file, its contents and any function that it impacts vulnerable to attack.

Affected software

CVE-2025-32438 is recorded against 1 package.

• unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 15 April 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

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

• CVE-2022-4995 (9.8 Critical, published 7 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2022-4994 (published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-49900 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-49899 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-4989 (published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-4990 (published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-50973 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-20572 (published 26 Jun 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-378: Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions) in other software:

• CVE-2026-4137 (8.0 High, published 18 May 2026)
• GHSA-9q8j-chc7-wpgp (published 29 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2026-2817 (4.4 Medium, published 19 Feb 2026)
• CVE-2025-46684 (6.6 Medium, published 13 Jan 2026)
• CVE-2025-46685 (7.5 High, published 13 Jan 2026)
• CVE-2025-7647 (8.0 High, published 27 Sep 2025)
• CVE-2025-4953 (8.0 High, published 16 Sep 2025)
• CVE-2025-55629 (6.5 Medium, published 22 Aug 2025)

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