CVE-2025-0781

Publication date 28 January 2025

Last updated 15 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
flightgear	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
simgear	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1:2020.3.18+dfsg-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:2019.1.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:2018.1.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.4.0-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
flightgear	Upstream: ad37afc
simgear	Upstream: 5bb0236

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.6 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H