# CVE-2025-14182: Sobey Media Convergence System upload path traversal

> Remote attackers can exploit a path traversal vulnerability in the watermark upload feature to read or modify arbitrary files.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 24 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gphh-v52r-j3fw

## What is CVE-2025-14182?

CVE-2025-14182 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Sobey Media Convergence System, published on 7 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability has been found in Sobey Media Convergence System 2.0/2.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /sobey-mchEditor/watermark/upload. The manipulation of the argument File leads to path traversal. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14182?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Sobey Media Convergence System.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-14182?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14182 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-14182 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-14182 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14182 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14182 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Sobey Media Convergence System, published on 7 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-14182 exists.

Affected product: Sobey Media Convergence System. 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-2025-14182/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14182/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14182
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14182
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14182

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14182/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.