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Ubuntu ubuntu-desktop-provision Writes User Password Hashes to Crash Report Logs, Exposing Credentials Scoring 9.1 CVSS

Last refreshed2026-10-10

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2025-15480

Key Details

CVECVE-2025-15480
CVSS Score / Version9.1 (Critical) / CVSS v3.1
Updated2026-10-07
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS Proseattack vector is network; attack complexity is low; privileges required is none; user interaction is none; scope is unchanged; confidentiality impact is high; integrity impact is none; availability impact is high.
Affected productscanonical Ubuntu and canonical ubuntu_desktop_provision
Classified asCWE-1258 (Exposure of Sensitive System Information Due to Uncleared Debug Information)

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

VendorProductAffected VersionsPatch Status
canonicalUbuntu
canonicalubuntu_desktop_provision
SubsystemsGeneral OT
SectorsMultiple

What to Know

In Ubuntu, ubuntu-desktop-provision version 24.04.4 could leak sensitive user credentials during crash reporting. Upon installation failure, if a user submitted a bug report to Launchpad, ubuntu-desktop-provision could include the user's password hash in the attached logs. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor canonical's web page for any future patch releases.

References

SourceReference
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15480
CVEhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15480