Distribution advisory
This page covers CVE-2025-32898 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.
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.
CVSS metrics in full
The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Attack vector: Adjacent network — the attacker has to sit on the same local or logical network.
- 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: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
- Availability impact: None.
Weakness class
UBUNTU-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
UBUNTU-CVE-2025-32898 is recorded against 2 packages.
- gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect
- kdeconnect
Timeline and source
Published on 5 December 2025 and last revised on 20 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
kde.org (Report)
Other advisories for this package
gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:
Same weakness in other software
These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-331: Insufficient Entropy) in other software:
