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CVE-2025-27553 (GCVE-0-2025-27553)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-23 14:16 – Updated: 2025-04-02 22:03
VLAI
Title
Apache Commons VFS: Possible path traversal issue when using NameScope.DESCENDENT
Summary
Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS before 2.10.0. The FileObject API in Commons VFS has a 'resolveFile' method that takes a 'scope' parameter. Specifying 'NameScope.DESCENDENT' promises that "an exception is thrown if the resolved file is not a descendent of the base file". However, when the path contains encoded ".." characters (for example, "%2E%2E/bar.txt"), it might return file objects that are not a descendent of the base file, without throwing an exception. This issue affects Apache Commons VFS: before 2.10.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10.0, which fixes the issue.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-24 13:43 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons VFS Affected: 0 , < 2.10.0 (semver)
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Credits
Arnout Engelen
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