# CVE-2025-11240: Open redirect vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub

> An unauthenticated attacker can redirect users to malicious sites via crafted links, facilitating phishing attacks against KNIME Business Hub users.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Green`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 2 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-82rh-xw3j-936r

## What is CVE-2025-11240?

CVE-2025-11240 is a medium-severity vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub, published on 2 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

An open redirect vulnerability existed in KNIME Business Hub prior to version 1.16.0. An unauthenticated remote attacker could craft a link to a legitimate KNIME Business Hub installation which, when opened by the user, redirects the user to a page of the attackers choice. This might open the possibility for fishing or other similar attacks. The problem has been fixed in KNIME Business Hub 1.16.0.

Weakness: CWE-601 (URL Redirection to Untrusted Site)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11240?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Knime Business Hub.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-11240?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11240 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-11240 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11240 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in KNIME Business Hub

- [CVE-2025-2402](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2402/): Hard-coded password for object store of KNIME Business Hub (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-2787](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2787/): Ingress-nginx vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2024-6598](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6598/): Denial-of-service on KNIME Business Hub when certain jobs are executed (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-14262](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14262/): Jobs can be saved as workflows with wrong permissions on KNIME Business Hub (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2025-3019](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3019/): Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in KNIME Business Hub web pages (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-11240 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-11240 is a medium-severity vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub, published on 2 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11240 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: KNIME Business Hub. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11240/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11240/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11240
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11240
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-11240

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11240/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.