CVE-2025-50151 Apache Jena: Configuration files uploaded by administrative users are not check properly

What is CVE-2025-50151?

CVE-2025-50151 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Apache Jena, published on 21 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

File access paths in configuration files uploaded by users with administrator access are not validated.

This issue affects Apache Jena version up to 5.4.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 5.5.0, which does not allow arbitrary configuration upload.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-50151?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.jena:jena. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Jena.

How do I fix CVE-2025-50151?

Upgrade org.apache.jena:jena to 5.5.0 or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-50151 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-50151 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Jena

• CVE-2022-28890 Processing external DTDs Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-32200 Apache Jena: Exposure of execution in script engine expressions. High 8.8
• CVE-2025-49656 Apache Jena: Administrative users can create files outside the server directory space via the admin UI High 7.5
• CVE-2021-39239 XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability High 7.5
• CVE-2023-22665 Apache Jena: Exposure of arbitrary execution in script engine expressions. Medium 5.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-50151, GHSA-xg9p-p463-3qjp, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-50151.