CVE-2025-27553

HIGH

Apache Commons Vfs < 2.10.0 - Path Traversal

Title source: rule

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0085
EPSS Percentile 74.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE
CWE-23
Status published

Affected Products (2)

apache/commons_vfs < 2.10.0
org.apache.commons/commons-vfs2 < 2.10.0Maven

Timeline

Published Mar 23, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026