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CVE-2025-55014

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 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: 2025-08-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-402

Description

The YouDao plugin for StarDict, as used in stardict 3.0.7+git20220909+dfsg-6 in Debian trixie and elsewhere, sends an X11 selection to the dict.youdao.com and dict.cn servers via cleartext HTTP.

Affected products

• StarDict: through 3.0.7+git20220909+dfsg-6

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1110370
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/08/msg00076.html
• https://packages.debian.org/trixie/stardict
• https://packages.debian.org/trixie/stardict-gtk
• https://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/index_en.php
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/04/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/08/2
• https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872313

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