CVE-2025-25185 HIGH

CVE-2025-25185: GPT Academic allows arbitary file read by tarfile uncompress within softlink

Vendor Binary-Husky
Product gpt_academic
Weakness CWE-59
Published March 3, 2025
Last update March 3, 2025

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

GPT Academic provides interactive interfaces for large language models. In 3.91 and earlier, GPT Academic does not properly account for soft links. An attacker can create a malicious file as a soft link pointing to a target file, then package this soft link file into a tar.gz file and upload it. Subsequently, when accessing the decompressed file from the server, the soft link will point to the target file on the victim server. The vulnerability allows attackers to read all files on the server.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 3, 2025 CVE published
March 3, 2025 Record updated