# CVE-2025-24908: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Data Integration & Analytics – Path Traversal

> Attackers can traverse the file system to access files outside the restricted directory via unsanitized input in the UploadFile service.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 17 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-485r-phmq-84vw

## What is CVE-2025-24908?

CVE-2025-24908 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Data Integration & Analytics, published on 16 Apr 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Overview 

 

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize '.../...//' (doubled triple dot slash) sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory. (CWE-35) 

 

Description 

 

Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Data Integration & Analytics versions before 10.2.0.2, including 9.3.x and 8.3.x, do not sanitize a user input used as a file path through the UploadFile service. 

 

Impact 

 

This allows attackers to traverse the file system to access files or directories that are outside of the restricted directory.

Weakness: CWE-35 (Path Traversal: '.../...//')

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24908?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-24908?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24908 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24908 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24908 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24908 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24908 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Data Integration & Analytics, published on 16 Apr 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24908 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Data Integration & Analytics. 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-2025-24908/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24908/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24908
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24908
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24908

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24908/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.