# CVE-2025-32017: Umbraco has a Management API Vulnerability to Path Traversal With Authenticated Users

- Also known as: GHSA-Q62R-8PPJ-XVF4
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 14.3.4, 15.3.1
- Published: 2025-04-08 · Updated: 2025-04-09

## Affected

- umbraco Umbraco-CMS: from 14.0.0--preview004, fixed in 14.3.4; from 15.0.0-rc1, fixed in 15.3.1
- Umbraco.Cms (NuGet): from 14.0.0--preview004, fixed in 14.3.4
- Umbraco.Cms (NuGet): from 15.0.0-rc1, fixed in 15.3.1

## Description

Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system. Authenticated users to the Umbraco backoffice are able to craft management API request that exploit a path traversal vulnerability to upload files into a incorrect location. The issue affects Umbraco 14+ and is patched in 14.3.4 and 15.3.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on umbraco Umbraco-CMS, Umbraco.Cms, upgrade to a fixed version (14.3.4, 15.3.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/security/advisories/GHSA-q62r-8ppj-xvf4
- https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/06a2a500b358ce15b1e228391eb60bd517c6e833
- https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/d3c1443b14b1076faf13d1bcecc42860fdf5fad8

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