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 ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Commons VFS |
Affected:
0 , < 2.10.0
(semver)
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Credits
Arnout Engelen
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