CVE-2025-53964 (GCVE-0-2025-53964)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-17 00:00
Modified
2025-07-17 20:30
Severity ?
9.6 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
GoldenDict 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 has an exposed dangerous method that allows reading and modifying files when a user adds a crafted dictionary and then searches for any term included in that dictionary.
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