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CVE-2025-27553

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-27553 is a Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS versions prior to 2.10.0. The FileObject API's 'resolveFile' method, when used with 'NameScope.DESCENDENT', fails to properly validate paths containing encoded "../" sequences, allowing access to files outside the intended base directory. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity that could lead to high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_vfs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0128 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.commons:commons-vfs2Fixed in: 2.10.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle SupportFixed in: apache-commons-vfs-0:2.0-11.el7_9.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-9q4x-fr4m-jp86high

Apache Commons VFS Has Relative Path Traversal Vulnerability

Mar 23, 2025
redhatCVE-2025-27553Moderate

apache-commons-vfs: Apache Commons VFS: Possible path traversal issue when using NameScope.DESCENDENT

Mar 23, 2025

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00006.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2025/03/23/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread/cnzqowyw9r2pl263cylmxhnvh41hyjcb
Mailing ListVendor Advisory