CVE-2025-52448VulnerabilityPublished 25 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-52448: Salesforce Tableau Server · Insecure Direct Object Reference

Affects Salesforce Tableau ServerSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.1 High · fixed in 2025.1.3 : patch Salesforce Tableau Server soon.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

8.1High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 33% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 2025.1.3, 2024.2.12, 2023.3.19

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 25 Jul 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Salesforce Tableau Server to 2025.1.3, 2024.2.12 or 2023.3.19.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Salesforce Tableau Server	Affected =0 <2025.1.3 <2024.2.12 <2023.3.19	Fixed in 2025.1.3 2024.2.12 2023.3.19

AI-suggested

To mitigate the risk posed by CVE-2025-52448, European organizations should take immediate and specific actions beyond generic patching advice. If you cannot patch yet, implement strict network segmentation to isolate Tableau Server instances from sensitive production databases, limiting access to trusted administrators only. Employ application-layer firewalls or API gateways to monitor and restrict calls to the validate-initial-sql API modules, detecting and blocking anomalous or unauthorized requests. Conduct thorough access reviews and tighten authorization policies within Tableau Server to minimize privileges and enforce least privilege principles. Enable detailed logging and real-time monitoring of Tableau Server activities to detect potential exploitation attempts early. Additionally, perform regular security assessments and penetration testing focused on API security and authorization controls. Finally, educate IT and security teams about this specific vulnerability to ensure rapid response and remediation.

Description

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (validate-initial-sql api modules) allows Interface Manipulation (data access to the production database cluster). This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.

Impact

For European organizations, the impact of CVE-2025-52448 could be severe. Tableau Server is widely used across various sectors in Europe, including finance, healthcare, government, and large enterprises, for data visualization and business intelligence. Unauthorized access to production databases could lead to exposure of sensitive personal data, trade secrets, and critical business information, potentially violating GDPR and other data protection regulations. This could result in legal penalties, reputational damage, and financial losses. Furthermore, the ability to manipulate data access could enable attackers to alter or corrupt data, undermining decision-making processes and operational integrity. The vulnerability's cross-platform nature (Windows and Linux) increases the attack surface, affecting diverse deployment environments common in European IT infrastructures. Given the strategic importance of data analytics in European businesses and public sector entities, exploitation of this vulnerability could disrupt critical services and erode trust in digital systems.

CWE-639Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #24OWASP Top 10 A01:2025: Broken Access Control (opens in a new tab)
The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.
Architecture and Design
For each and every data access, ensure that the user has sufficient privilege to access the record that is being requested.
Architecture and Design · Implementation
Make sure that the key that is used in the lookup of a specific user's record is not controllable externally by the user or that any tampering can be detected.
Architecture and Design
Use encryption in order to make it more difficult to guess other legitimate values of the key or associate a digital signature with the key so that the server can verify that there has been no tampering.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Access Control (opens in a new tab)
Authorization Testing Automation (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Request Forgery Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Insecure Direct Object Reference Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Authorization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V4.1.2 (opens in a new tab)
V4.2.1 (opens in a new tab)
V8.3.8 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=005105043&type=1 (opens in a new tab)

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 25 Jul 2025, 19:17 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-639

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