# CVE-2025-24364: vaultwarden allows RCE in the admin panel

> Authenticated attackers can execute arbitrary code on the server by exploiting command injection in the admin panel's mail configuration.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 12 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h6cc-rc6q-23j4

## What is CVE-2025-24364?

CVE-2025-24364 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in dani-garcia vaultwarden, published on 27 Jan 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

vaultwarden is an unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs. Attacker with authenticated access to the vaultwarden admin panel can execute arbitrary code in the system. The attacker could then change some settings to use sendmail as mail agent but adjust the settings in such a way that it would use a shell command. It then also needed to craft a special favicon image which would have the commands embedded to run during for example sending a test email. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.33.0.

Weakness: CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24364?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dani-Garcia Vaultwarden.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-24364?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24364 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24364 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-24364 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in dani-garcia vaultwarden

- [CVE-2024-55225](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55225/): Vaultwarden vulnerable to user impersonation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-55224](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55224/): Vaultwarden HTML injection vulnerability (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2024-39924](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39924/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2026-43912](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43912/): Vaultwarden: Cross-Org Group Binding Enables Unauthorized Read And Write Access Into Another Organization (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2026-27802](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-27802/): Vaultwarden: Privilege Escalation via Bulk Permission Update to Unauthorized Collections by Manager (high 8.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24364 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24364 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in dani-garcia vaultwarden, published on 27 Jan 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-24364 exists.

Affected product: dani-garcia vaultwarden. 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-2025-24364/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24364/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24364
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24364
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24364

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24364/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.