# CVE-2025-4613: Client side RCE in Google Web Designer App

> Attackers can achieve remote code execution by tricking users into downloading malicious ad templates due to path traversal in Google Web Designer.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:L/SI:H/SA:L/S:N/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vwv7-36jv-h55v

## What is CVE-2025-4613?

CVE-2025-4613 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Google Web Designer App, published on 12 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Path traversal in Google Web Designer's template handling versions prior to 16.3.0.0407 on Windows allows attacker to achieve remote code execution by tricking users into downloading a malicious ad template

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory), CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-4613?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Google Web Designer.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-4613?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-4613 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-4613 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-4613 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Google Web Designer App

- [CVE-2026-3223](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-3223/): Zip Slip leading to Arbitrary File Write and Privilege Escalation in Google Web Designer (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2025-1079](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1079/): RCE In Google Web Designer (high 7.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-4613 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-4613 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Google Web Designer App, published on 12 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-4613 exists.

Affected product: Google Web Designer App. 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-2025-4613/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4613/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4613
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4613
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-4613

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4613/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.