Cloudera Hue Ace Editor path traversal

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cloudera Hue. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Ace Editor. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-3884. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability has been found in Cloudera Hue (version now known) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Ace Editor. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Cloudera Hue Ace Editor Directory Traversal Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Cloudera Hue. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the Ace Editor web application. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied path prior to using it in file operations. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to disclose information in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-24332.

It is possible to read the advisory at zerodayinitiative.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-3884 since 04/22/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/24/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-16094). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Cloud Software

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• Cloudera

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• Hue

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• commercial

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