🛡️ CVE-2025-32898 on Debian — gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The KDE Connect verification-code protocol before 2025-04-18 uses only 8 characters and therefore allows brute-force attacks. This affects KDE Connect before 1.33.0 on Android, KDE Connect before 25.04 on desktop, KDE Connect before 0.5 on iOS, Valent before 1.0.0.alpha.47, and GSConnect before 59.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-32898 as tracked by Debian, for the package gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect. The fix is available in version 62-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent 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 low, availability none.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-32898 is classified as CWE-331: Insufficient Entropy. A generator is seeded with too little randomness, narrowing the range of outputs an attacker must search.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-32898 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect (fixed in 62-1)
  • kdeconnect (fixed in 25.04.0-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 December 2025 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2025-32898 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-12-05
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect — 62-1
kdeconnect — 25.04.0-1

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