# CVE-2025-52451: Path traversal in Tableau Server

> An attacker can exploit improper input validation in the file upload API to perform absolute path traversal, potentially reading arbitrary files.

- **Severity:** High 8.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 22 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wh5c-wfpr-wpfp

## What is CVE-2025-52451?

CVE-2025-52451 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server, published on 22 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tabdoc api - create-data-source-from-file-upload modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal.This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-52451?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Tableau Tableau Server.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-52451?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-52451 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-52451 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52451 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Salesforce Tableau Server

- [CVE-2022-22128](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22128/): Path traversal in Tableau Server (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-6939](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-6939/): Missing authorization in Tableau Server (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-26496](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-26496/): Code injection in Tableau Server, Tableau Desktop (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2025-52449](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52449/): File upload in Tableau Server (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2025-52452](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52452/): Path traversal in Tableau Server (high 8.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-52451 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-52451 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server, published on 22 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52451 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Salesforce Tableau Server. 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-2025-52451/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52451/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52451
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52451
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-52451

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52451/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.