CVE-2025-1353 Kong Insomnia profapi.dll untrusted search path
Local attackers may exploit an untrusted search path in profapi.dll to execute arbitrary code, though the vulnerability's existence is disputed.
- 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-2025-1353?
CVE-2025-1353 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Kong Insomnia, published on 16 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability was found in Kong Insomnia up to 10.3.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing 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 exploitation is known to be difficult. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The vendor is not able to reproduce the issue.
Weakness: CWE-426
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1353?
How do I fix CVE-2025-1353?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1353 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-2025-1353 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1353 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8jx3-cx25-4j8f.