CVE-2025-65473
Path Traversal in Easyimages2.0 Project Easyimages2.0 ≤ 2.8.6
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-65473 is a critical-severity External Control of File Name or Path (CWE-73) vulnerability in Easyimages2.0 Project Easyimages2.0. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data from Local System (T1005); ranked at the 44th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — 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.
CVE-2025-65473 is an arbitrary file rename vulnerability in the /admin/filer.php component of EasyImages 2.0 versions v2.8.6 and below. Published on 2025-12-11T17:15:57.957, the issue carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) and maps to CWE-73. It enables attackers with Administrator privileges to execute arbitrary code by injecting a crafted payload into an uploaded file name.
Attackers must possess Administrator privileges to exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network, with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation changes scope and achieves high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability through arbitrary code execution on the affected system.
Advisories providing further details, including potential mitigations or patches, are available at https://congsec.cn?id=20251103235610-7t4en7j and https://gist.github.com/CongSec/107b9cab6dd1cb297a738f11e2b2dbb6.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-202703
Vulnerability Data
An arbitrary file rename vulnerability in the /admin/filer.php component of EasyImages 2.0 v2.8.6 and below allows attackers with Administrator privileges to execute arbitrary code via injecting a crafted payload into an uploaded file name.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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V5.3.2
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Input validation directly rejects or sanitizes untrusted path strings before they reach filesystem operations.
Enforces authorization checks on the actual resource accessed, blocking unauthorized files even when a malicious path is supplied.
Least-privilege limits the set of files or directories any subject can affect, shrinking the blast radius of a path-control flaw.
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.
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.
Security testing can detect path-traversal issues but does not itself implement preventive controls.
Secure development lifecycle mandates input validation and path-handling controls that directly prevent external file/path manipulation.
Application security requirements explicitly call for controls against untrusted input influencing file operations.
Secure architecture principles discourage unsafe path construction but do not prescribe concrete file-name controls.
Secure coding standards require canonicalization, allow-listing, and bounds checks on file paths, directly eliminating CWE-73.
Information access restriction limits which files can be reached, indirectly reducing impact of path manipulation.