CVE-2025-30474

Apache Commons VFS: Failing to find an FTP file can reveal the URI's password in an error message

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.0
EPSS: EPSS 0.89 % · percentile 59 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-03-23
Updated: 2025-04-01
Assigner: apache
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS. The FtpFileObject class can throw an exception when a file is not found, revealing the original URI in its message, which may include a password. The fix is to mask the password in the exception message This issue affects Apache Commons VFS: before 2.10.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10.0, which fixes the issue.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

Advisories

GHSA-3936-3gx6-49c4 — Apache Commons VFS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-7320
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-30474

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1165 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0896 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_vfs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 2.10.0

Affected products

Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Commons VFS	affected 0 < 2.10.0

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD