🛡️ CVE-2025-65073 — keystone

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no 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 low, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/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: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-65073 is classified as CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization. An authorisation check runs but reaches the wrong conclusion, permitting actions it should refuse.

Affected software

CVE-2025-65073 is recorded against 2 packages.

• keystone (from 28.0.0.0rc1 up to 28.0.0)
• unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
pypi.org (Package)
github.com (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

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

• CVE-2012-4456 (8.0 High, published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2013-4477 (2.0 Low, published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2013-0270 (published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2021-3563 (9.5 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)
• USN-8433-1 (published 16 Jun 2026)
• UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43000 (published 28 May 2026)
• DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43000 (published 28 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-44394 (6.0 Medium, published 28 May 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization) in other software:

• CVE-2025-14562 (2.0 Low, published 17 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2025-30238 (published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2025-15674 (2.7 Low, published 6 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2025-10656 (9.8 Critical, published 29 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-39025 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-24779 (5.0 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-26016 (5.0 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-23823 (4.2 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)

CVE-2025-65073 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

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