Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2025-67818

An issue was discovered in Weaviate OSS before 1.33.4.

Published Dec 12, 2025 · catalog updated Oct 14, 2026 · An issue was discovered

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-67818. EPSS is 0.91%. Act only if a listed version of An issue was discovered is installed.

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  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
High7.2
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.91%
Remediation
Advisory link
Affected products
cpe weaviate/weaviate

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 root when a backup is restored, potentially creating or overwriting files in arbitrary locations within the application's privilege scope.

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  • cpe weaviate/weaviateversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2025-67818

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-67818. EPSS is 0.91%. Act only if a listed version of An issue was discovered is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-22: Path Traversal. EPSS 0.91%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

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Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Dec 12, 2025 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    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 root when a backup is restored, potentially creating or overwriting files in arbitrary locations within the application's privilege scope.

  2. Oct 14, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    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 root when a backup is restored, potentially creating or overwriting files in arbitrary locations within the application's privilege scope.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-67818

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-67818

    30-day exploitation probability 0.9%

    first.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2025-67818

    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 root when a backup is restored, potent

    nvd.nist.gov

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.