CVE-2025-36857
LOWDescription
Rapid7 Appspider Pro versions below 7.5.021, suffer from a broken access control vulnerability in the application's configuration file loading mechanism, whereby an attacker can place files in directories belonging to other users or projects. Affected versions allow standard users to add custom configuration files. These files, which are loaded in alphabetical order, can override or change the settings of the original configuration files, creating a security vulnerability. This issue stems from improper directory access management. This vulnerability was remediated in version 7.5.021 of the product.
How to fix
Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 2% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2013-0632 | Critical | 9.8 | 94% | KEV | - |
| CVE-2017-11610 | High | 8.8 | 88% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2023-29919 | Critical | 9.1 | 60% | - | - |
| CVE-2019-17124 | Critical | 9.8 | 23% | - | - |
| CVE-2020-12608 | High | 7.8 | 22% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2021-3437 | Critical | 9.8 | 16% | - | Fix |
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