CVE-2025-67818
Published: 12 December 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-67818 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Weaviate Weaviate. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 43.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Similarity Search; in the Supply Chain and Deployment risk domain.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-203094
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in Weaviate OSS before 1.33.4. An attacker with access to insert data into the database can craft an entry name with an absolute path (e.g., /etc/...) or use parent directory traversal (../../..) to escape the restore…
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root when a backup is restored, potentially creating or overwriting files in arbitrary locations within the application's privilege scope.
- CWE(s)
AI Security AnalysisAI
- AI Category
- Similarity Search
- Risk Domain
- Supply Chain and Deployment
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- Matched keywords: weaviate
Related Threats
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.