CVE-2025-55013 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-55013: Assemblyline 4 Service Client: Arbitrary Write through path traversal in Client code

Vendor Cybercentrecanada
Product assemblyline
Weakness CWE-23
Published August 9, 2025
Last update August 12, 2025

CVSS base score

4.2/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Assemblyline 4 Service Client interfaces with the API to fetch tasks and publish the result for a service in Assemblyline 4. In versions below 4.6.1.dev138, the Assemblyline 4 Service Client (task_handler.py) accepts a SHA-256 value returned by the service server and uses it directly as a local file name.A malicious or compromised server (or any MITM that can speak to client) can return a path-traversal payload such as `../../../etc/cron.d/evil` and force the client to write the downloaded bytes to an arbitrary location on disk. This is fixed in version 4.6.1.dev138.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 9, 2025 CVE published
August 12, 2025 Record updated