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Unscored HSEC-2025-0006

Private key leak via inherited file descriptor

Published Nov 17, 2025 · Updated Nov 17, 2025 · Assigned by HSEC

Description

# Private key leak via inherited file descriptor

The X.509 key reading function `readKeyFile` opened a file
descriptor to the private key without setting the *close-on-exec*
flag. If a child process is `exec`ed at the same time, it would
inherit that file descriptor and could read the private key
material.

Impact is limited to child processes that run untrusted code, but
that do not close inherited file descriptors. (For example, the
`su(1)` command.)

This leak was fixed by setting the *close-on-exec* flag on
unix-based systems.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hackage crypton-x509-store >= 1.6.9, < 1.6.12 1.6.12 HSEC-2025-0006
Hackage x509-store >= 0.1 — HSEC-2025-0006

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