CVE-2025-8516
Published: 04 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-8516 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Kingdee Cloud-Starry-Sky Enterprise (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 42.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-23519
Vulnerability details
A security vulnerability has been detected in Kingdee Cloud-Starry-Sky Enterprise Edition up to 8.2. This issue affects the function BaseServiceFactory.getFileUploadService.deleteFileAction of the file K3Cloud\BBCMallSite\WEB-INF\lib\Kingdee.K3.O2O.Base.WebApp.jar!\kingdee\k3\o2o\base\webapp\action\FileUploadAction.class of the component IIS-K3CloudMiniApp. The manipulation of the argument filePath leads to path traversal. The attack…
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can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue. The vendor recommends as a short-term measure to "[t]emporarily disable external network access to the Kingdee Cloud Galaxy Retail System or set up an IP whitelist for access control." The long-term remediation will be: "Install the security patch provided by the Starry Sky system, with the specific solutions being: i) Adding authentication to the vulnerable CMKAppWebHandler.ashx interface; ii) Removing the file reading function."
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
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.