Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
Plexus-Utils versions 4.0.0 before 4.0.3 and versions before 3.6.1 are vulnerable to directory traversal in the extractFile method of its Expand class. The source gives few details on the required access, but the description says an attacker could execute arbitrary code. Upgrade to plexus-utils 4.0.3 or 3.6.1.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.8 | High | 3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | ADP (CISA-ADP) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0070, the 53rd percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-6fmv-xxpf-w3cw
- OSV: GHSA-6fmv-xxpf-w3cw
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-67030
- github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/issues/294
- github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/pull/295
- github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/pull/296
- github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/commit/6d780b3378829318ba5c2d29547e0012d5b29642
- gist.github.com/weaver4VD/3216dac645220f8c9b488362f61241ec
- github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils
- github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/releases/tag/plexus-utils-4.0.3