CVE-2025-40605 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A Path Traversal vulnerability has been identified in the Email Security appliance allows an attacker to manipulate file system paths by injecting crafted directory-traversal sequences (such as ../) and may access files and directories outside the intended restricted path.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00031.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0018

History

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		A Path Traversal vulnerability has been identified in the Email Security appliance allows an attacker to manipulate file system paths by injecting crafted directory-traversal sequences (such as ../) and may access files and directories outside the intended restricted path.
Weaknesses		CWE-23
References		https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0018

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: sonicwall

Published: 2025-11-20T12:19:17.871Z

Updated: 2025-11-20T18:30:31.164Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T08:34:59.662Z

Link: CVE-2025-40605

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-20T18:30:16.655Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-11-20T15:17:28.917

Modified: 2025-11-21T15:13:13.800

Link: CVE-2025-40605

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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