Vulnerability in swupdate (UBUNTU-CVE-2025-51495)
Summary
Vulnerability in swupdate (UBUNTU-CVE-2025-51495). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the WebSocket component of Mongoose 7.5 thru 7.17. By sending a specially crafted WebSocket request, an attacker can cause the application to crash. If downstream vendors integrate this component improperly, the issue may lead to a buffer overflow.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as UBUNTU-CVE-2025-51495 has been found in swupdate.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "swupdate UBUNTU-CVE-2025-51495" on the vendor's site.
UBUNTU-CVE-2025-51495 (swupdate)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in swupdate.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of swupdate.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'swupdate' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'swupdate' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
swupdateを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- report ubuntu.com
- report cve.org
- report github.com
- report github.com