CVE-2025-52968: Freedesktop Xdg-Utils

Low severity, CVSS 2.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xdg-open in xdg-utils through 1.2.1 can send requests containing SameSite=Strict cookies, which can facilitate CSRF. (For example, xdg-open could be modified to, by default, associate x-scheme-handler/https with the execution of a browser with command-line options that arrange for an empty cookie store, although this would add substantial complexity, and would not be considered a desirable or expected behavior by all users.) NOTE: this is disputed because integrations of xdg-open typically do not provide information about whether the xdg-open command and arguments were manually entered by a user, or whether they were the result of a navigation from content in an untrusted origin.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Xdg-Utils: up to and including 1.2.1

Published 2025-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.