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Senstive information disclosure was affecting subiquity

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In Ubuntu, Subiquity version 24.04.4 could leak sensitive user credentials during crash reporting. Upon installation failure, if a user submitted a bug report to Launchpad, Subiquity could include certain user credentials, such as the user's plaintext Wi-Fi password, in the attached logs.

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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2025-14551
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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4 Nov 2026, 03:15 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Senstive information disclosure was affecting subiquity

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Apr 2026, 15:03 UTC

In Ubuntu, Subiquity version 24.04.4 could leak sensitive user credentials during crash reporting. Upon installation failure, if a user submitted a bug report to Launchpad, Subiquity could include certain user credentials, such as the user's plaintext Wi-Fi password, in the attached logs.

osv:CVE-2025-14551
Complete source record
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  "id": "13ddb26dd688a90bb01f0256dc65f87d9608cb4d9f3cffdb672b4bcdf0f66968",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14551",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Senstive information disclosure was affecting subiquity",
    "summary": "In Ubuntu, Subiquity version 24.04.4 could leak sensitive user credentials during crash reporting. Upon installation failure, if a user submitted a bug report to Launchpad, Subiquity could include certain user credentials, such as the user's plaintext Wi-Fi password, in the attached logs.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-14551",
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      ],
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        }
      ],
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:32.718342376Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/14xxx/CVE-2025-14551.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14551",
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      ],
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      }
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 499916,
  "published_at": "2026-04-09T15:03:58.798+00:00"
}