🛡️ CVE-2025-66549 — desktop

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative 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 none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• 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: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-66549 is classified as CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message. Error output includes internal detail such as paths, queries or stack traces that assists an attacker.

Affected software

CVE-2025-66549 is recorded against 1 package.

• desktop (from 3.0.0 up to 3.16.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 December 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

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

• CVE-2026-2664 (7.8 High, published 24 Feb 2026)
• CVE-2025-56803 (8.4 High, published 3 Sep 2025)
• CVE-2025-47792 (5.0 Medium, published 16 May 2025)
• CVE-2025-3224 (7.8 High, published 28 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2024-52510 (4.2 Medium, published 15 Nov 2024)
• CVE-2024-46958 (9.1 Critical, published 16 Sep 2024)
• CVE-2024-8696 (9.8 Critical, published 12 Sep 2024)
• CVE-2024-8695 (9.8 Critical, published 12 Sep 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message) in other software:

• CVE-2026-56620 (4.3 Medium, published 10 Aug 2026)
• GHSA-gwfq-86j8-7qhv (2.0 Low, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-47622 (5.3 Medium, published 4 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-56571 (3.7 Low, published 31 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-56568 (3.7 Low, published 31 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-11904 (5.3 Medium, published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-59943 (5.3 Medium, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-4166 (5.0 Medium, published 27 Jul 2026)

CVE-2025-66549 on other distributions

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

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