# CVE-2025-52452: Path traversal in Tableau Server

> An attacker can exploit absolute path traversal in the tabdoc API to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem.

- **Severity:** High 8.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 25 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2836-rjcm-28p3

## What is CVE-2025-52452?

CVE-2025-52452 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server, published on 25 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tabdoc api - duplicate-data-source modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal. This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-52452?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Tableau Tableau Server.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-52452?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-52452 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-52452 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52452 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-2025-52451](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52451/): Path traversal in Tableau Server (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2025-52449](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52449/): File upload in Tableau Server (high 8.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-52452 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-52452 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server, published on 25 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52452 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-2025-52452/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52452/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52452
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52452
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-52452

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-52452/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.