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general
  • source: nut (main)
  • version: 2.8.5-1
  • maintainer: Laurent Bigonville (DMD)
  • arch: all any
  • std-ver: 4.7.4
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • o-o-stable: 2.7.4-13
  • oldstable: 2.8.0-7
  • stable: 2.8.1-5
  • stable-p-u: 2.8.1-5+deb13u1
  • testing: 2.8.5-1
  • unstable: 2.8.5-1
versioned links
  • 2.7.4-13: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.8.0-7: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.8.1-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.8.1-5+deb13u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 2.8.5-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • libnutclient-dev
  • libnutclient2t64
  • libnutscan-dev
  • libnutscan4
  • libups-nut-perl
  • libupsclient-dev
  • libupsclient7
  • nut (15 bugs: 0, 14, 1, 0)
  • nut-cgi
  • nut-client (6 bugs: 0, 3, 3, 0)
  • nut-doc
  • nut-i2c
  • nut-ipmi
  • nut-modbus
  • nut-monitor (2 bugs: 0, 1, 1, 0)
  • nut-powerman-pdu
  • nut-server (14 bugs: 0, 13, 1, 0)
  • nut-snmp (2 bugs: 0, 0, 2, 0)
  • nut-xml
  • python3-nut
action needed
Marked for autoremoval on 17 November: #1146704 high
Version 2.8.5-1 of nut is marked for autoremoval from testing on Tue 17 Nov 2026. It is affected by #1146704. The removal of nut will also cause the removal of (transitive) reverse dependency: wmnut. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.
Created: 2026-09-11 Last update: 2026-11-09 19:18
A new upstream version is available: 2.8.5-docs high
A new upstream version 2.8.5-docs is available, you should consider packaging it.
Created: 2026-10-23 Last update: 2026-11-09 15:00
2 security issues in trixie high

There are 2 open security issues in trixie.

1 important issue:
  • CVE-2026-85068: Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a common interface for monitoring and administering UPS, PDU and SCD hardware. From 2.4.2 through 2.8.5, ippon_command in drivers/blazer_usb.c partially initializes char tmp[64] with a short Megatec status query and then passes a fixed eight-byte chunk to usb_control_msg. A malicious firmware-controlled USB device presenting the Mustek Powermust VID 0x06da and Mustek Powermust PID 0x0003 matches blazer_usb_id, selects ippon_subdriver, and can receive the uninitialized trailing stack bytes during normal polling. The disclosure is bounded and read-only, requires physical or supply-chain access to the USB bus, and has no established integrity or availability impact. This issue is scheduled to be fixed in version 2.8.6.
1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:
  • CVE-2026-54161: (needs triaging) Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a common interface for monitoring and administering UPS, PDU and SCD hardware. From 2.8.3 to 2.8.5, upsmon in clients/upsmon.c inserts the server-supplied ups.alarm value into shell commands executed by notify(), async_notify(), and wall(). When a monitored device reports an ALARM state and an operator has configured NOTIFYCMD with EXEC in NOTIFYFLAG ALARM, shell metacharacters in the alarm text are evaluated on POSIX or Windows and can execute arbitrary operating-system commands as the upsmon account, which is commonly root. An attacker can control the value through a malicious or compromised upsd, a man-in-the-middle on a plaintext upsd to upsmon connection, or a compromised UPS device whose driver supplies the alarm upstream of upsd; TLS between upsd and upsmon does not mitigate the compromised-device path. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.8.6.

You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2026-07-04 Last update: 2026-11-06 23:00
2 security issues in sid high

There are 2 open security issues in sid.

2 important issues:
  • CVE-2026-54161: Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a common interface for monitoring and administering UPS, PDU and SCD hardware. From 2.8.3 to 2.8.5, upsmon in clients/upsmon.c inserts the server-supplied ups.alarm value into shell commands executed by notify(), async_notify(), and wall(). When a monitored device reports an ALARM state and an operator has configured NOTIFYCMD with EXEC in NOTIFYFLAG ALARM, shell metacharacters in the alarm text are evaluated on POSIX or Windows and can execute arbitrary operating-system commands as the upsmon account, which is commonly root. An attacker can control the value through a malicious or compromised upsd, a man-in-the-middle on a plaintext upsd to upsmon connection, or a compromised UPS device whose driver supplies the alarm upstream of upsd; TLS between upsd and upsmon does not mitigate the compromised-device path. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.8.6.
  • CVE-2026-85068: Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a common interface for monitoring and administering UPS, PDU and SCD hardware. From 2.4.2 through 2.8.5, ippon_command in drivers/blazer_usb.c partially initializes char tmp[64] with a short Megatec status query and then passes a fixed eight-byte chunk to usb_control_msg. A malicious firmware-controlled USB device presenting the Mustek Powermust VID 0x06da and Mustek Powermust PID 0x0003 matches blazer_usb_id, selects ippon_subdriver, and can receive the uninitialized trailing stack bytes during normal polling. The disclosure is bounded and read-only, requires physical or supply-chain access to the USB bus, and has no established integrity or availability impact. This issue is scheduled to be fixed in version 2.8.6.
Created: 2026-07-04 Last update: 2026-11-06 23:00
2 security issues in forky high

There are 2 open security issues in forky.

2 important issues:
  • CVE-2026-54161: Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a common interface for monitoring and administering UPS, PDU and SCD hardware. From 2.8.3 to 2.8.5, upsmon in clients/upsmon.c inserts the server-supplied ups.alarm value into shell commands executed by notify(), async_notify(), and wall(). When a monitored device reports an ALARM state and an operator has configured NOTIFYCMD with EXEC in NOTIFYFLAG ALARM, shell metacharacters in the alarm text are evaluated on POSIX or Windows and can execute arbitrary operating-system commands as the upsmon account, which is commonly root. An attacker can control the value through a malicious or compromised upsd, a man-in-the-middle on a plaintext upsd to upsmon connection, or a compromised UPS device whose driver supplies the alarm upstream of upsd; TLS between upsd and upsmon does not mitigate the compromised-device path. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.8.6.
  • CVE-2026-85068: Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a common interface for monitoring and administering UPS, PDU and SCD hardware. From 2.4.2 through 2.8.5, ippon_command in drivers/blazer_usb.c partially initializes char tmp[64] with a short Megatec status query and then passes a fixed eight-byte chunk to usb_control_msg. A malicious firmware-controlled USB device presenting the Mustek Powermust VID 0x06da and Mustek Powermust PID 0x0003 matches blazer_usb_id, selects ippon_subdriver, and can receive the uninitialized trailing stack bytes during normal polling. The disclosure is bounded and read-only, requires physical or supply-chain access to the USB bus, and has no established integrity or availability impact. This issue is scheduled to be fixed in version 2.8.6.
Created: 2026-07-04 Last update: 2026-11-06 23:00
2 security issues in bookworm high

There are 2 open security issues in bookworm.

1 important issue:
  • CVE-2026-85068: Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a common interface for monitoring and administering UPS, PDU and SCD hardware. From 2.4.2 through 2.8.5, ippon_command in drivers/blazer_usb.c partially initializes char tmp[64] with a short Megatec status query and then passes a fixed eight-byte chunk to usb_control_msg. A malicious firmware-controlled USB device presenting the Mustek Powermust VID 0x06da and Mustek Powermust PID 0x0003 matches blazer_usb_id, selects ippon_subdriver, and can receive the uninitialized trailing stack bytes during normal polling. The disclosure is bounded and read-only, requires physical or supply-chain access to the USB bus, and has no established integrity or availability impact. This issue is scheduled to be fixed in version 2.8.6.
1 issue postponed or untriaged:
  • CVE-2026-54161: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a common interface for monitoring and administering UPS, PDU and SCD hardware. From 2.8.3 to 2.8.5, upsmon in clients/upsmon.c inserts the server-supplied ups.alarm value into shell commands executed by notify(), async_notify(), and wall(). When a monitored device reports an ALARM state and an operator has configured NOTIFYCMD with EXEC in NOTIFYFLAG ALARM, shell metacharacters in the alarm text are evaluated on POSIX or Windows and can execute arbitrary operating-system commands as the upsmon account, which is commonly root. An attacker can control the value through a malicious or compromised upsd, a man-in-the-middle on a plaintext upsd to upsmon connection, or a compromised UPS device whose driver supplies the alarm upstream of upsd; TLS between upsd and upsmon does not mitigate the compromised-device path. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.8.6.
Created: 2026-11-06 Last update: 2026-11-06 23:00
2 bugs with a patch to review in the bug tracker normal
The bug tracker contains patches fixing 2 bugs to review: include them, or remove the patch tag.
Created: 2026-09-02 Last update: 2026-11-09 18:30
Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal
The packages that nut depends on which need a new maintainer are:
  • dblatex (#942402)
    • Build-Depends-Indep: dblatex
  • powerman (#964586)
    • Depends: powerman libpowerman0
    • Build-Depends: libpowerman0-dev
  • docbook-xsl (#802370)
    • Build-Depends-Indep: docbook-xsl
Created: 2019-11-22 Last update: 2026-11-09 18:00
3 open merge requests in Salsa normal
There are 3 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.
Created: 2026-10-03 Last update: 2026-10-03 02:00
lintian reports 105 warnings normal
Lintian reports 105 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.
Created: 2026-09-09 Last update: 2026-09-13 12:00
AppStream hints: 2 warnings for nut-monitor normal
AppStream found metadata issues for packages:
  • nut-monitor: 2 warnings
You should get rid of them to provide more metadata about this software.
Created: 2025-10-18 Last update: 2025-10-18 11:30
debian/patches: 6 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 6 debian patches available in version 2.8.5-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

  • 6 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.
Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2026-09-09 11:32
news
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  • [2026-11-04] Accepted nut 2.8.1-5+deb13u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2026-09-16] nut 2.8.5-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-09-09] Accepted nut 2.8.5-1 (source) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2026-06-26] nut 2.8.4+really-2.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2026-06-23] Accepted nut 2.8.4+really-2.1 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
  • [2025-10-20] nut 2.8.4+really-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-10-17] Accepted nut 2.8.4+really-2 (source) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2025-10-17] Accepted nut 2.8.4+really-1 (source) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2025-09-24] Accepted nut 2.8.4-1~exp1 (source amd64 all) into experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2025-09-04] nut 2.8.3-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-09-01] Accepted nut 2.8.3-3 (source) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2025-07-08] Accepted nut 2.8.3-2 (source) into experimental (Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2025-07-08] nut 2.8.1-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-07-04] Accepted nut 2.8.3-1 (source amd64 all) into experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2025-06-27] Accepted nut 2.8.1-5 (source) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2025-03-08] nut 2.8.1-4.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-03-05] Accepted nut 2.8.1-4.1 (source) into unstable (Bastian Germann) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
  • [2024-12-18] nut 2.8.1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-12-15] Accepted nut 2.8.1-4 (source) into unstable (Chris Hofstaedtler) (signed by: Christian Hofstaedtler)
  • [2024-09-12] nut 2.8.1-3.3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-09-10] Accepted nut 2.8.1-3.3 (source) into unstable (Michael Biebl)
  • [2024-09-09] Accepted nut 2.8.1-3.2 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Michael Biebl)
  • [2024-04-11] nut REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-02-29] Accepted nut 2.8.1-3.1 (source) into unstable (Benjamin Drung)
  • [2024-02-19] Accepted nut 2.8.1-3.1~exp2 (source) into experimental (Steve Langasek)
  • [2024-02-18] Accepted nut 2.8.1-3.1~exp1 (source) into experimental (Steve Langasek)
  • [2024-01-17] nut 2.8.1-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-01-11] Accepted nut 2.8.1-3 (source) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2024-01-09] Accepted nut 2.8.1-2 (source) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
  • [2023-12-12] nut 2.8.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
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bugs [bug history graph]
  • all: 45
  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 36
  • M&W: 8
  • F&P: 1
  • patch: 2
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