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    CVE-2025-10937 (GCVE-0-2025-10937)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-23 18:24 – Updated: 2025-10-23 19:11
    VLAI
    Title
    Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinKNOW Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
    Summary
    Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinKNOW software at or prior to version 24.11 creates a temporary file to store the local authentication token during startup, before copying it to its final location. This temporary file is created in a directory accessible to all users on the system. An unauthorized local user or process can exploit this behavior by placing a file lock on the temporary token file using the flock system call. This prevents MinKNOW from completing the token generation process. As a result, no valid local token is created, and the software is unable to execute commands on the sequencer. This leads to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, blocking sequencing operations.
    SSVC
    Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
    Decision recorded 2025-10-23 19:11 UTC
    CWE
    • CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
    Assigner
    icscert CNA
    Impacted products
    Vendor Product Version
    Oxford Nano Technologies MinKNOW Affected: 0 , < 24.11 (custom)
    Unaffected: 24.11
        cpe:2.3:a:oxford_nano_technologies:minknow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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    Date Public
    2025-10-21 17:00
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