CVE-2025-8454

9.8 criticalEPSS 0.3%

Critical (9.8) in debian devscripts. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was discovered that uscan, a tool to scan/watch upstream sources for new releases of software, included in devscripts (a collection of scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier), skips OpenPGP verification if the upstream source is already downloaded from a previous run even if the verification failed back then.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-347
Published: 2025-08-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

debian:devscripts

References

https://bugs.debian.org/1109251

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