CVE-2025-58162 MobSF Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write (AR-Slip) via Absolute Path in .a Extraction

What is CVE-2025-58162?

CVE-2025-58162 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF, published on 2 Sep 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

MobSF is a mobile application security testing tool used. In version 4.4.0, an authenticated user who uploaded a specially prepared one.a, can write arbitrary files to any directory writable by the user of the MobSF process. This issue has been patched in version 4.4.1.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-58162?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including mobsf. It affects 1 product.

Products include Opensecurity Mobile Security Framework.

How do I fix CVE-2025-58162?

Upgrade mobsf to 4.4.1 or later.

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

Is CVE-2025-58162 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-58162 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF

• CVE-2025-46335 Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) Allows Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via malicious SVG Icon Upload High 8.6
• CVE-2025-24805 Local Privilege Escalation in MobSF High 8.5
• CVE-2025-24803 Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in MobSF High 8.4
• CVE-2026-24490 MobSF has Stored XSS via Manifest Analysis - Dialer Code Host Field High 8.1
• CVE-2024-53999 Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in "Diff or Compare" Functionality High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-9gh8-9r95-3fc3, PYSEC-2026-1670.