CVE-2025-52968 Cross-site request forgery in xdg-utils
xdg-open may leak SameSite=Strict cookies, potentially facilitating CSRF attacks, though the vulnerability is disputed due to lack of origin context.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-52968?
CVE-2025-52968 is a low-severity vulnerability in freedesktop xdg-utils, published on 23 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-420
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-52968?
How do I fix CVE-2025-52968?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-52968 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-52968 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52968 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-64296, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-52968, GHSA-r9jv-cv83-m4v4, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-52968.