CVE-2025-54389 | AIDE improper output neutralization vulnerability

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AIDE is an advanced intrusion detection environment. Prior to version 0.19.2, there is an improper output neutralization vulnerability in AIDE. An attacker can craft a malicious filename by including terminal escape sequences to hide the addition or removal of the file from the report and/or tamper with the log output. A local user might exploit this to bypass the AIDE detection of malicious files. Additionally the output of extended attribute key names and symbolic links targets are also not properly neutralized. This issue has been patched in version 0.19.2. A workaround involves configuring AIDE to write the report output to a regular file, redirecting stdout to a regular file, or redirecting the log output written to stderr to a regular file.

Published: 2025-08-14 Last update: 2025-11-04 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-54389 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.21%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2025-54389

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-54389

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.07% 0.21% +0.14%
2 2026-06-10 0.01% 0.07% +0.06%
3 2025-08-15 — 0.01% —

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-54389

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.2 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.5 3.6 [email protected]
5.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-54389

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-54389

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-54389 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (aide), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-54389
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-54389
suse medium CVE-2025-54389 severity moderate: SUSE including 8 source package names (aide, aide-0.16-103.el9_6.2, …), 44 product×package rows across 42 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Liberty Linux 8, … (42 product lines)): Known Not Affected 38, Fixed 6. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-54389/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-54389 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (aide), 8 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 8. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-54389

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-54389

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
advanced_intrusion_detection_environment_project advanced_intrusion_detection_environment < 0.19.2 cpe:2.3:a:advanced_intrusion_detection_environment_project:advanced_intrusion_detection_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-54389

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