CVE-2025-11919

Unprotected temporary directories in Wolfram Cloud may result in privilege escalation

State
Published
Severity
9.6 Critical
Published
Jun 26, 2026
Updated
Jun 26, 2026
Reserved
Oct 17, 2025

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Description

The default JVM can access files and directories under `/tmp/` including the `$TemporaryDirectory` of other users on the same cloud instance (`/tmp/UserTemporaryFiles/`). The `-init` file for the the JVM initialization exists in the vulnerable directory during the startup of the JVM. An attacker with access to the shared `/tmp/` space can preemptively create or replace `.jar` files or directories (via the `-init` file) that the victim JVM will resolve first in its classpath. By strategically placing a malicious version of a commonly used library (e.g., `commons-io`) in a location that is included in the classpath before the legitimate version, an attacker can cause the JVM to load the malicious class during startup, thereby executing the attacker's code.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.6 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
CloudWolfram Research Inc.
  • 14.2Affected

References

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