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Fencer Vulns
low 2.7

CVE-2025-52968 json

xdg-open in xdg-utils through 1.2.1 can send requests containing SameSite=Strict cookies, which can facilitate CSRF.

published 2025-06-23 16 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-18897

cvss
2.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

xdg-open in xdg-utils through 1.2.1 can send requests containing SameSite=Strict cookies, which can facilitate CSRF. (For example, xdg-open could be modified to, by default, associate x-scheme-handler/https with the execution of a browser with command-line options that arrange for an empty cookie store, although this would add substantial complexity, and would not be considered a desirable or expected behavior by all users.) NOTE: this is disputed because integrations of xdg-open typically do not provide information about whether the xdg-open command and arguments were manually entered by a user, or whether they were the result of a navigation from content in an untrusted origin.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-52968 updated cvss 2.7

xdg-utils: xdg-open bypassing SameSite=Strict

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 xdg-utils
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 xdg-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 xdg-utils, flatpak-spawn, flatpak-xdg-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 xdg-utils, flatpak-spawn, flatpak-xdg-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 xdg-utils, flatpak-xdg-utils
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
16 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 2.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • freedesktop xdg-utils

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-420 Unprotected Alternate Channel

References

Sources

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