CVE-2025-59345 Dragonfly did not enable authentication for some Manager’s endpoints

High 7.7 Published Updated

Unauthenticated attackers can access Manager endpoints to create or delete jobs, causing denial of service and data modification.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2025-59345?

CVE-2025-59345 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in dragonflyoss dragonfly, published on 17 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dragonfly is an open source P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system. Prior to 2.1.0, The /api/v1/jobs and /preheats endpoints in Manager web UI are accessible without authentication. Any user with network access to the Manager can create, delete, and modify jobs, and create preheat jobs. An unauthenticated adversary with network access to a Manager web UI uses /api/v1/jobs endpoint to create hundreds of useless jobs. The Manager is in a denial-of-service state, and stops accepting requests from valid administrators. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.0.

Weakness: CWE-306

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-59345?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly and d7y.io/dragonfly/v2. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly GoAll versionsNone
github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly GoAll versions2.1.0
github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly GoAll versions2.1.0
d7y.io/dragonfly/v2 GoAll versions2.1.0
d7y.io/dragonfly/v2 GoAll versions2.1.0
d7y.io/dragonfly/v2 GoAll versions2.1.0

Products include Linuxfoundation Dragonfly.

How do I fix CVE-2025-59345?

Upgrade github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly to 2.1.0 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2025-59345 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-59345 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-89vc-vf32-ch59, GO-2025-3965.

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