High
Signing Checks Bypass
Type: advisorySources: OSV
A security issue was found in Sparkle before version 2.6.4. An attacker can replace an existing signed update with another payload, bypassing Sparkle’s (Ed)DSA signing checks.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-0509
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 04:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A security issue was found in Sparkle before version 2.6.4. An attacker can replace an existing signed update with another payload, bypassing Sparkle’s (Ed)DSA signing checks.
osv:CVE-2025-0509
Complete source record
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"id": "cc109bee4be5e74eac8ca507a402ca0d394efcb70bcabcdee7a24164dd603190",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-0509",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "Signing Checks Bypass",
"summary": "A security issue was found in Sparkle before version 2.6.4. An attacker can replace an existing signed update with another payload, bypassing Sparkle’s (Ed)DSA signing checks.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-0509",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2025-0509",
"aliases": [
"BIT-java-2025-0509",
"BIT-java-min-2025-0509",
"BIT-jre-2025-0509",
"CVE-2025-0509",
"GHSA-wc9m-r3v6-9p5h"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
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"repo": "https://github.com/sparkle-project/sparkle",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0ef1ee0220239b3776f433314515fd849025673f"
}
],
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},
{
"fixed": "2.6.4"
}
],
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"strategy": "StandardRange"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:sparkle-project:sparkle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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"versions": [
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"2.6.2",
"2.6.1",
"2.6.0",
"2.6.0-beta.2",
"2.6.0-beta.1",
"2.5.1",
"2.5.0",
"2.5.0-beta.2",
"2.5.0-beta.1",
"2.4.2",
"2.4.1",
"2.4.1-beta.1",
"2.4.0",
"2.4.0-beta.2",
"2.4.0-beta.1",
"2.3.0",
"2.3.0-beta.2",
"2.3.0-beta.1",
"2.2.1",
"2.2.0",
"2.2.0-beta.2",
"2.2.0-beta.1",
"2.1.0",
"2.1.0-beta.2",
"2.1.0-beta.1",
"2.0.0",
"2.0.0-rc.1",
"2.0.0-beta.6",
"2.0.0-beta.5",
"2.0.0-beta.4",
"2.0.0-beta.3",
"2.0.0-beta.2",
"2.0.0-beta.1",
"1.14.0rc1",
"1.12.0",
"1.12.0a3",
"1.11.0rc2",
"1.11.0",
"1.12.0a2",
"1.12.0a1",
"1.11.0rc1",
"1.10.0rc1",
"1.10.0",
"1.9.0",
"1.9.0rc1",
"1.8.0",
"1.7.1",
"1.7.0",
"1.6.1",
"1.6.0",
"sparkle-1.5b6",
"sparkle-1.5b5",
"sparkle-1.5b4",
"sparkle-1.5b3",
"sparkle-1.5b2",
"sparkle-1.5b1"
],
"database_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:25.693144479Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle/",
"https://sparkle-project.org/documentation/security-and-reliability/",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/0xxx/CVE-2025-0509.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0509",
"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250124-0008/",
"https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle/pull/2550"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-552"
],
"cna_assigner": "fedora",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/0xxx/CVE-2025-0509.json"
}
},
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],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 492389,
"published_at": "2025-02-04T20:01:08.865+00:00"
}