umbraco/umbraco-cms · Security
Umbraco has a Management API Vulnerability to Path Traversal With Authenticated Users
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-q62r-8ppj-xvf4
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-32017
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
Impact
Authenticated users to the Umbraco backoffice are able to craft management API request that exploit a path traversal vulnerability to upload files into a incorrect location.
Patches
The issue affects Umbraco 14+ and is patched in 14.3.4 and 15.3.1.
Workarounds
Umbraco supports the configuration of allowed and disallowed file extensions. Using these options to allow only necessary file extensions significantly reduces the scope of the vulnerability.
CWEs
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
- CWE-23 · Relative Path Traversal
References
- https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/security/advisories/GHSA-q62r-8ppj-xvf4 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32017 ↗
- https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/06a2a500b358ce15b1e228391eb60bd517c6e833 ↗
- https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/d3c1443b14b1076faf13d1bcecc42860fdf5fad8 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q62r-8ppj-xvf4 ↗