8.4

CVE-2025-24337: musing studio writefreely Improper Preservation of Permissions

Deferred
AliasesGHSA-3qc3-mx6x-267hGO-2025-3410
Published 20-01-2025Last modified 21-01-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-24337 is a high (CVSS 8.4) Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in musing studio writefreely. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 8.4, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
8.4/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14710-1SUSE-SU-2025:0297-1

Timeline

  1. 20-01-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 21-01-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

WriteFreely through 0.15.1, when MySQL is used, allows local users to discover credentials by reading config.ini.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

11%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Github.com/writefreely1 product
  • writefreely≤ 0.15.1 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Musing studio1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

6 links