What is CVE-2025-52450?

CVE-2025-52450 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Kernel, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-08-22.

How severe is CVE-2025-52450?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-52450 known to be exploited?

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

Path Traversal in Linux Kernel

CVE-2025-52450

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (abdoc api - create-data-source-from-file-upload modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal.This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.004 (33.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

security@salesforce.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-52450?: CVE-2025-52450 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Kernel, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-08-22.
How severe is CVE-2025-52450?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-52450 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.