What is CVE-2025-22601?

CVE-2025-22601 is a low-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 3.1/10. Published 2025-02-04.

How severe is CVE-2025-22601?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-22601 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Path Traversal in Discourse

CVE-2025-22601

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can trick a target user to make changes to their own username via carefully crafted link using the `activate-account` route. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.004 (28.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

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

Affected products

Discourse — versions beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3, 3.4.0, tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-22601?: CVE-2025-22601 is a low-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 3.1/10. Published 2025-02-04.
How severe is CVE-2025-22601?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-22601 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.