Directory Traversal Affecting apache-commons-vfs package, versions <0:2.0-11.0.1.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-APACHECOMMONSVFS-10916527
  • published24 Jul 2025
  • disclosed23 Mar 2025

Introduced: 23 Mar 2025

CVE-2025-27553  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-23  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 apache-commons-vfs to version 0:2.0-11.0.1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2025-10548.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apache-commons-vfs package and not the apache-commons-vfs package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1