Vulnerabilites related to Cinnamon - kotaemon
CVE-2025-53358 (GCVE-0-2025-53358)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-02 15:38
Modified
2025-07-02 16:00
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
kotaemon is an open-source RAG-based tool for document comprehension. From versions 0.10.6 and prior, in libs/ktem/ktem/index/file/ui.py, the index_fn method accepts both URLs and local file paths without validation. The pipeline streams these paths directly and stores them, enabling attackers to traverse directories (e.g. ../../../../../.env) and exfiltrate sensitive files. This issue has been patched via commit 37cdc28, in version 0.10.7 which has not been made public at time of publication.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Cinnamon kotaemon Version: <= 0.10.6
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