CVE-2025-40549

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

18/11/2025

Last modified:

02/12/2025

Description

A Path Restriction Bypass vulnerability exists in Serv-U that when abused, could give a malicious actor with access to admin privileges the ability to execute code on a directory. <br /> <br /> This issue requires administrative privileges to abuse. On Windows systems, this scored as medium due to differences in how paths and home directories are handled.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.10 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High