CVE-2025-59352
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Publication date: 2025-09-17

Last updated on: 2025-09-18

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description
Dragonfly is an open source P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system. Prior to 2.1.0, the gRPC API and HTTP APIs allow peers to send requests that force the recipient peer to create files in arbitrary file system locations, and to read arbitrary files. This allows peers to steal other peers’ secret data and to gain remote code execution (RCE) capabilities on the peer’s machine.This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.0.
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Published
2025-09-17
Last Modified
2025-09-18
Generated
2026-06-16
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2025-09-17
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-14
NVD
CVE-2025-59352
Affected Vendors & Products
Showing 1 associated CPE
Vendor Product Version / Range
linuxfoundation dragonfly to 2.1.0 (exc)
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CWE ID Description
CWE-202 When trying to keep information confidential, an attacker can often infer some of the information by using statistics.
CWE-22 The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability in Dragonfly, a P2P-based file distribution system, allows malicious peers to send requests via gRPC and HTTP APIs that force the recipient peer to create files in arbitrary locations and read arbitrary files. This can lead to theft of secret data and remote code execution on the affected machine. It affects versions prior to 2.1.0 and is fixed in version 2.1.0.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can lead to unauthorized access to secret data and allow attackers to execute code remotely on your machine, potentially compromising system integrity, confidentiality, and availability.

Mitigation Strategies

Upgrade Dragonfly to version 2.1.0 or later, as this version contains the fix for the vulnerability allowing arbitrary file creation and remote code execution.

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