| Name | CVE-2025-32898 |
| Description | The KDE Connect verification-code protocol before 2025-04-18 uses only 8 characters and therefore allows brute-force attacks. This affects KDE Connect before 1.33.0 on Android, KDE Connect before 25.04 on desktop, KDE Connect before 0.5 on iOS, Valent before 1.0.0.alpha.47, and GSConnect before 59. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect (PTS) | bookworm | 54-2 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 62-1 | fixed |
| trixie (security) | 62-1+deb13u1 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 71-1 | fixed |
| kdeconnect (PTS) | bullseye | 20.12.3-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 22.12.3-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 25.04.2-1 | fixed |
| trixie (security) | 25.04.2-1+deb13u1 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 25.11.80+git20251121.7090b106-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - kdeconnect <ignored> (Minor issue, design limitation of protocol version prior to 8)
[bullseye] - kdeconnect <ignored> (Minor issue, design limitation of protocol version prior to 8)
[bookworm] - gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect <ignored> (Minor issue, design limitation of protocol version prior to 8)
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20250418-3.txt
Fixed by: https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/commit/98256fda3dfdf50edd7555f21cba46fd1e596523 (v25.03.80)
Fixed by: https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/commit/cf099c63c7981e69bd095fcbe3215cf87b5328f8 (v59)