CVE-2025-0733 Postman profapi.dll untrusted search path
Local attackers can exploit an untrusted search path in Postman's profapi.dll to potentially execute arbitrary code.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-0733?
CVE-2025-0733 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Postman, published on 27 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Postman up to 11.20 on Windows. This affects an unknown part in the library profapi.dll. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. An attack has to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Weakness: CWE-426
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0733?
How do I fix CVE-2025-0733?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0733 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-0733 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0733 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3gvp-wpmx-3ff3.