# CVE-2025-53908: RomM vulnerable to Authenticated Path Traversal

- Severity: CVSS 8.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.10.3, 4.0.0-beta.3
- Published: 2025-07-16 · Updated: 2025-07-18

## Affected

- rommapp romm: fixed in 3.10.3; fixed in 4.0.0-beta.3

## Description

RomM is a self-hosted rom manager and player. Versions prior to 3.10.3 and 4.0.0-beta.3 have an authenticated path traversal vulnerability in the `/api/raw` endpoint. Anyone running the latest version of RomM and has multiple users, even unprivileged users, such as the kiosk user in the official implementation, may be affected. This allows the leakage of passwords and users that may be stored on the system. Versions 3.10.3 and 4.0.0-beta.3 contain a patch.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rommapp romm, upgrade to a fixed version (3.10.3, 4.0.0-beta.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/rommapp/romm/security/advisories/GHSA-fx9g-xw4j-jwc3
- https://github.com/rommapp/romm/commit/7c94cb05e74ddb6a6af7b82320686c01754e9966
- https://github.com/rommapp/romm/commit/baa1a9759079c36e36a9f10c920c46b57d0b6151
- https://github.com/rommapp/romm/blob/4.0.0-beta.2/backend/endpoints/raw.py#L31

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