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FKIE_CVE-2025-53120

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-25 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:37

Severity

9.4 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Summary

A path traversal vulnerability in unauthenticated upload functionality allows a malicious actor to upload binaries and scripts to the server’s configuration and web root directories, achieving remote code execution on the Unified PAM server.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@rapid7.com	https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/securden-unified-pam-multiple-critical-vulnerabilities-fixed/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T09:37:39.283",
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CVE-2025-53120 (GCVE-0-2025-53120)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-25 16:11 – Updated: 2025-08-25 19:01

Title

Securden Unified PAM Path Traversal In File Upload

Summary

Severity

9.4 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-25 19:01 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

rapid7 mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/securden-unified…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Securden	Unified PAM	Affected: 9.0.* , ≤ 11.3.1 (semver)

Date Public

2025-08-25 16:09

Credits

Aaron Herndon, Principal Security Consultant, and Marcus Chang, Security Consultant, both of Rapid7.

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Sightings

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