CVE-2025-54141

ViewVC's standalone server exposes arbitrary server filesystem content

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jul 22, 2025
Updated: Jul 23, 2025
Reserved: Jul 16, 2025

Description

ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. In versions 1.1.0 through 1.1.31 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.3, the standalone.py script provided in the ViewVC distribution can expose the contents of the host server's filesystem though a directory traversal-style attack. This is fixed in versions 1.1.31 and 1.2.4.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
viewvcviewvc	>= 1.1.0, < 1.1.31Affected >= 1.2.0, < 1.2.4Affected

References

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