UnratedRed Hat & Ubuntu Linux
NNCP vulnerability
USN-8359-1 Published Jun 1, 2026
CVE-2025-60020
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat & Ubuntu LinuxUnclassified
Summary
It was discovered that NNCP did not properly sanitize file paths in packet data during file requesting and file saving operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to read or write arbitrary files outside of the intended directory. Affected Ubuntu releases: 25.10, 24.04, 22.04. CVEs: CVE-2025-60020.
Affected versions
- Ubuntu 25.10
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
Recommended fix / mitigation
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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