What is CVE-2025-65713?

CVE-2025-65713 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Home-Assistant, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2025-12-23.

How severe is CVE-2025-65713?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Home-Assistant

CVE-2025-65713

Home Assistant Core before v2025.8.0 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal. The Downloader integration does not fully validate file paths during concatenation, leaving a path traversal vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2025-12-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (32.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Home-Assistant

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/150046 (Patch, Issue Tracking)
gist.github.com/GenoWang/7359360285e0fe21a7a58d10ff71d032 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-65713?: CVE-2025-65713 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Home-Assistant, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2025-12-23.
How severe is CVE-2025-65713?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.