CVE-2025-25195
What it is
Zulip is an open source team chat application. A weekly cron job (added in 50256f48314250978f521ef439cafa704e056539) demotes channels to being "inactive" after they have not received traffic for 180 days. However, upon doing so, an event was sent to all users in the organization, not just users in the channel. This event contained the name of the private channel. Similarly, the same commit (50256f48314250978f521ef439cafa704e056539) added functionality to notify clients when channels stopped being "inactive." The first message sent to a private channel which had not previously had any messages for over 180 days (and were thus already marked "inactive") would leak an event to all users in the organization; this event also contained the name of the private channel. Commits 75be449d456d29fef27e9d1828bafa30174284b4 and a2a1a7f8d152296c8966f1380872c0ac69e5c87e fixed the issue. This vulnerability only existed in `main`, and was not part of any published versions.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network with a low-privilege account. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.4% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 4.3 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-200 · Information exposure
- Record status
- Deferred
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 4.3
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Is it in your code?
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Read https://cve-list.com/agent/cve/CVE-2025-25195.md and follow it. Check whether this project is affected by CVE-2025-25195. Read only. Don't change anything and don't upload my code. Tell me yes, no or not sure, with the file as proof.
Fix and advisories
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/50256f48314250978f521ef439cafa704e056539
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/75be449d456d29fef27e9d1828bafa30174284b4
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/a2a1a7f8d152296c8966f1380872c0ac69e5c87e
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-x8cx-3hq5-4wj9
References
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/50256f48314250978f521ef439cafa704e056539
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/75be449d456d29fef27e9d1828bafa30174284b4
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/a2a1a7f8d152296c8966f1380872c0ac69e5c87e
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-x8cx-3hq5-4wj9