What is CVE-2025-30474?

CVE-2025-30474 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Commons Vfs, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2025-03-23.

How severe is CVE-2025-30474?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Apache Commons Vfs

CVE-2025-30474

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS. The FtpFileObject class can throw an exception when a file is not found, revealing the original URI in its message, which may include a password. The fix is to mask the password in the exception message This issue affects Apache Commons VFS: before 2.10.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10.0, which fixes the issue.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2025-03-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 57.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Apache Commons Vfs
Apache Software Foundation Commons Vfs — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-169 (related, Patch, Issue Tracking)
lists.apache.org/thread/w6ztgnbk6ccry3470x191g3xwrpgy6f4 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-30474?: CVE-2025-30474 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Commons Vfs, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2025-03-23.
How severe is CVE-2025-30474?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.