CVE-2025-6240 Profisee Path Traversal Vulnerability
Authenticated attackers can exploit improper input validation in Profisee filesystem modules to perform path traversal, potentially reading or modifying unauthorized files.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-6240?
CVE-2025-6240 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Profisee, published on 18 Jun 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Profisee on Windows (filesystem modules) allows Path Traversal after authentication to the Profisee system.This issue affects Profisee: from 2020R1 before 2024R2.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6240?
How do I fix CVE-2025-6240?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-6240 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-2025-6240 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6240 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-438x-3xx9-xwjp.