What is CVE-2025-66905?

CVE-2025-66905 is a high-severity vulnerability in Takes Tkfiles, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-12-19.

How severe is CVE-2025-66905?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Takes Tkfiles

CVE-2025-66905

The Takes web framework's TkFiles take thru 2.0-SNAPSHOT fails to canonicalize HTTP request paths before resolving them against the filesystem. A remote attacker can include ../ sequences in the request path to escape the configured base directory and read arbitrary files from the host system.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.005 (41.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Takes Tkfiles — versions 2.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (Product)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-66905?: CVE-2025-66905 is a high-severity vulnerability in Takes Tkfiles, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-12-19.
How severe is CVE-2025-66905?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.