# CVE-2025-47423: Path traversal in Personal Weather Station Dashboard

> Unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files, including private SSL keys, via directory traversal in the test parameter.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 May 2025
- **Updated:** 7 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x3wr-p869-7p3g

## What is CVE-2025-47423?

CVE-2025-47423 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in pwsdashboard Personal Weather Station Dashboard, published on 7 May 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Personal Weather Station Dashboard 12_lts allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ../ directory traversal in the test parameter to /others/_test.php, as demonstrated by reading the server's private SSL key in cleartext.

Weakness: CWE-24 (Path Traversal: '../filedir')

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-47423?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-47423?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-47423 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-47423 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-47423 exists.

Public exploit code:

- https://github.com/Haluka92/CVE-2025-47423 (github_poc): https://github.com/Haluka92/CVE-2025-47423
- Personal Weather Station Dashboard 12 - Directory Traversal (nuclei): http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-47423.yaml

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-47423 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-47423 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in pwsdashboard Personal Weather Station Dashboard, published on 7 May 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-47423 exists.

Affected product: pwsdashboard Personal Weather Station Dashboard. 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-2025-47423/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-47423/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-47423
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47423
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-47423

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-47423/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.