Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-27782

Path Traversal in Applio ≤ 3.2.8-bugfix

Public PoCPath Traversal
Published
19 March 2025
Modified
01 August 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v4 7.7
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.013 68th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-27782 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Applio Applio. Its CVSS base score is 7.7 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 32% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

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

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

Applio, an open-source voice conversion tool, is affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability in versions 3.2.8-bugfix and earlier. The flaw, tracked as CWE-22, resides in inference.py and permits writing to arbitrary paths on the server; the same code paths can be chained with unsafe deserialization to obtain remote code execution. The issue carries a CVSS 4.0 score of 7.7 with a network attack vector and no required authentication or user interaction.

An unauthenticated attacker can send crafted requests directly to the inference endpoints, causing the application to write attacker-controlled content to any location on the underlying filesystem. Successful exploitation can therefore corrupt configuration files, overwrite application code, or stage malicious payloads that lead to full remote code execution when combined with the deserialization weakness.

Public references, including the GitHub Security Lab advisory GHSL-2024-341, confirm the vulnerable code locations but state that no patches were available at the time of disclosure. The EPSS score has remained in the 0.15–0.19 range without a pronounced post-disclosure climb.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Applio is a voice conversion tool. Versions 3.2.8-bugfix and prior are vulnerable to arbitrary file write in inference.py. This issue may lead to writing arbitrary files on the Applio server. It can also be used in conjunction with an unsafe…

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deserialization to achieve remote code execution. As of time of publication, no known patches are available.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

applio
applio
≤ 3.2.8-bugfix

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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

Enforces the intended directory access authorizations that path traversal would otherwise bypass.

Input validation directly neutralizes special path elements before pathname construction occurs.

Least privilege reduces the impact of any unauthorized file access obtained via traversal.

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.

finds

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