diffoscope Path Traversal vulnerability

HIGH 7.5CVE-2024-25711 · GHSA-33w6-hvmq-gh4x · PYSEC-2024-41 · Published 27/02/2024 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2024-25711 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting diffoscope, diffoscope (reproducible builds).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.98%, higher than 62.4% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 256 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
diffoscope PyPI	`< 256`	`256`
diffoscope reproducible_builds	`< 256`	`256`

Description

diffoscope before 256 allows directory traversal via an embedded filename in a GPG file. Contents of any file, such as ../.ssh/id_rsa, may be disclosed to an attacker. This occurs because the value of the gpg --use-embedded-filenames option is trusted.

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