Red Hat Security Advisory: apache-commons-vfs security update
Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA
- EPSS
- 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 72% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 8 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 2026-10-25.
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has released an official security update for apache-commons-vfs in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:10548 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying this update mitigates the vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are specified by the vendor.
Description
A path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2025-27553) was identified in Apache Commons VFS when using NameScope.DESCENDENT. Commons VFS provides a unified API to access various file systems and supports multiple file system types. This vulnerability could allow unauthorized access to files outside the intended scope. Red Hat has issued a security update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support to address this issue. The severity is rated as moderate by Red Hat Product Security.