What is CVE-2025-10854?

CVE-2025-10854 is a high-severity vulnerability, classified under UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2025-09-22.

How severe is CVE-2025-10854?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

CVE-2025-10854

CVE-2025-10854

The txtai framework allows the loading of compressed tar files as embedding indices. While the validate function is intended to prevent path traversal vulnerabilities by ensuring safe filenames, it does not account for symbolic links within the tar file. An attacker is able to write a file anywhere in the filesystem when txtai is used to load untrusted embedding indices

EPSS: 0.004 (35.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-61 — UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

References

reefs@jfrog.com (patch)
reefs@jfrog.com (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-10854?: CVE-2025-10854 is a high-severity vulnerability, classified under UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2025-09-22.
How severe is CVE-2025-10854?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.