Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-0799

Path Traversal in Ibm App Connect Enterprise 12.0.1.0 – 12.0.12.10

Published
06 February 2025
Modified
12 August 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0048 39th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-0799 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Ibm App Connect Enterprise. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 39th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

IBM App Connect enterprise 12.0.1.0 through 12.0.12.10 and 13.0.1.0 through 13.0.2.1 could allow an authenticated user to write to an arbitrary file on the system during bar configuration deployment due to improper pathname limitations on restricted directories.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

ibm
app connect enterprise
12.0.1.0 — 12.0.12.10 · 13.0.1.0 — 13.0.2.1

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V5.3.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly blocks the path traversal by validating and sanitizing user-supplied pathnames before any file write during BAR deployment.

prevent

Enforces that only authorized paths within restricted directories may be written to by the authenticated user.

prevent

Limits the authenticated user's privileges so that even a successful traversal cannot reach arbitrary system files.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-02 partial match
prevents

Patching/maintenance can remediate known path-traversal flaws in deployed software (partial prevention of exploitability) but does nothing to stop the coding defect from being introduced in the first place.

PR.AA-05 none match
prevents

PR.AA-05 defines and reviews access policies but does not address code-level pathname neutralization, so neither direction prevents CWE-22.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Security testing in development catches path traversal via static/dynamic analysis.

prevents

Secure SDLC mandates input validation and path sanitization that directly prevent path traversal.

prevents

Application security requirements include rules for safe file handling and canonicalization.

prevents

Secure architecture principles require least-privilege file access and directory isolation.

prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe path construction and mandate safe APIs.

mitigates

Information access restriction limits which files an application may read or write.

References