CVE-2025-66625: Umbraco.Cms Umbraco Vulnerable To Improper File Vulnerability
MODERATECVE-2025-66625 is a MODERATE (CVSS 4.9) umbraco vulnerable to improper file vulnerability (CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties) affecting Umbraco.Cms libraries in the NuGet ecosystem. The issue involves umbraco vulnerable to improper file access and credential exposure in dictionary import functionality. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 13.12.1.
CVE-2025-66625 at a Glance
Security Impact
CVSS: 4.9
The security impact metrics below are parsed directly from the CVSS v3.1 vector string (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).
How to Fix CVE-2025-66625
To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Umbraco.Cms dependencies to a patched release. Both direct and transitive dependencies should be checked, as frameworks or security libraries may pull in vulnerable versions transitively.
Upgrade Umbraco.Cms to 13.12.1
Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:
inspect dependencies for Umbraco.Cms
How to Check if You Are Affected
To determine whether your application is affected by CVE-2025-66625, inspect your project dependencies for Umbraco.Cms:
inspect dependencies for Umbraco.Cms
Analyze the terminal output to locate any version of Umbraco.Cms in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 13.12.1), your application is affected.
Note: Verify declared build manifests and deployed runtime container environments.
Technical Details
Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties, where the product makes files or directories accessible to unauthorized actors, even though they should not be. In Umbraco.Cms, software state validation or input boundaries are circumvented during processing. Review the official source advisory statement below for specific affected components, classes, and reproduction details.
Source Advisory Statement
CVE-2025-66625 Affected Umbraco.Cms Versions
1 component(s)| Product / Package | Ecosystem | Affected Versions | Fixed Version |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Umbraco.Cms
|
NuGet |
≥ 10.0.0
< 13.12.1
|
13.12.1
|
References
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Machine-readable OSV JSON
OSV v1.5 Schema
{
"schema_version" : "1.4.0",
"id" : "GHSA-hfv2-pf68-m33x",
"modified" : "2025-12-09T21:37:25Z",
"published" : "2025-12-09T17:12:18Z",
"aliases" : [ "CVE-2025-66625" ],
"summary" : "Umbraco Vulnerable to Improper File Access and Credential Exposure in Dictionary Import Functionality",
"details" : "### Impact\nDue to unsafe handling and deletion of temporary files during the dictionary upload process, an attacker with access to the backoffice can trigger predictable requests to temporary file paths. The application’s error responses (HTTP 500 when a file exists, 404 when it does not) allow the attacker to enumerate the existence of arbitrary files on the server’s filesystem. This vulnerability does not allow reading or writing file contents.\n\nIn certain configurations, incomplete clean-up of temporary upload files may additionally expose the NTLM hash of the Windows account running the Umbraco application. The direct impact of this vulnerability is therefore limited to confidentiality, which is reflected in its CVSS base score of 4.9\n\nWhile the CVSS Base Score captures only the immediate effect, the practical risk varies significantly based on hosting environment and identity configuration. Umbraco Cloud sites run under low-privilege, isolated Azure App Service worker identities, which mitigates the impact of any credential exposure. In contrast, self-hosted deployments could run Umbraco using privileged local or domain accounts. If such an account’s NTLM hash is disclosed, an attacker may be able to:\n- Perform NTLM relay attacks\n- Crack the hash offline to recover the underlying password\n- Authenticate as the compromised identity\n- Access internal systems trusted by that identity\n- Move laterally within the network\n- Potentially escalate to full domain compromise in weakly segmented environments\n\nThese outcomes are not part of the CVSS base score, which only rates the immediate confidentiality impact, but represent realistic downstream consequences for installations using elevated or widely-trusted service accounts. Self-hosted environments running Umbraco under privileged identities are therefore at significantly higher risk.\n\nVulnerability found and reported by Tomasz Holeksa at Pentest Limited\n\n### Patches\nThe issue has been patched in 13.12.1.\n\n### Workarounds\nThe issue can only be exploited by authorized backoffice accounts with access to the \"Translations\" section.",
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"type" : "CVSS_V3",
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"references" : [ {
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"type" : "ADVISORY",
"url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66625"
}, {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/7505efd433189037f46547932d4a8b603fd4a615"
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"type" : "PACKAGE",
"url" : "https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS"
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"database_specific" : {
"cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-200", "CWE-377", "CWE-552" ],
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"github_reviewed_at" : "2025-12-09T17:12:18Z",
"nvd_published_at" : "2025-12-09T20:15:55Z"
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