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CVE-2025-0781: Incorrect Authorization in SimGear

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

An attacker can bypass the sandboxing of Nasal scripts and arbitrarily write to any file path that the user has permission to modify at the operating-system level.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• FlightGear SimGear: through 2020.3.19

References

• https://gitlab.com/flightgear/flightgear/-/commit/ad37afce28083fad7f79467b3ffdead753584358
• https://gitlab.com/flightgear/flightgear/-/issues/3025
• https://gitlab.com/flightgear/simgear/-/commit/5bb023647114267141a7610e8f1ca7d6f4f5a5a8
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00028.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00029.html

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