CVE-2025-5138 (GCVE-0-2025-5138)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-25 00:31
Modified
2025-06-20 04:07
Severity ?
2.0 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
3.5 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RC:R
3.5 (Low) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RC:R
CWE
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Bitwarden up to 2.25.1. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component PDF File Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
References
cna@vuldb.comhttps://github.com/YZS17/CVE/blob/main/PDF%20XSS%20vulnerability%20in%20file%20upload%20function%20of%20%20Bitwarden.md
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310219
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?id.310219
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?submit.572263
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Bitwarden Version: 2.25.0
Version: 2.25.1
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