Frappe up to 14.99.5/15.88.0 path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Frappe up to 14.99.5/15.88.0. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-68953. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Frappe up to 14.99.5/15.88.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Frappe is a full-stack web application framework. Versions 14.99.5 and below and 15.0.0 through 15.80.1 include requests that are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. Arbitrary files from the server could be retrieved due to a lack of proper sanitization on some requests. This issue is fixed in versions 14.99.6 and 15.88.1. To workaround, changing the setup to use a reverse proxy is recommended.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-68953 since 12/26/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 14.99.6 or 15.88.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 3867fb112c3f7be1a863e40f19e9235719f784fb is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-206230). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Name

• Frappe

Version

• 14.99.0
• 14.99.1
• 14.99.2
• 14.99.3
• 14.99.4
• 14.99.5
• 15.0
• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.3
• 15.4
• 15.5
• 15.6
• 15.7
• 15.8
• 15.9
• 15.10
• 15.11
• 15.12
• 15.13
• 15.14
• 15.15
• 15.16
• 15.17
• 15.18
• 15.19
• 15.20
• 15.21
• 15.22
• 15.23
• 15.24
• 15.25
• 15.26
• 15.27
• 15.28
• 15.29
• 15.30
• 15.31
• 15.32
• 15.33
• 15.34
• 15.35
• 15.36
• 15.37
• 15.38
• 15.39
• 15.40
• 15.41
• 15.42
• 15.43
• 15.44
• 15.45
• 15.46
• 15.47
• 15.48
• 15.49
• 15.50
• 15.51
• 15.52
• 15.53
• 15.54
• 15.55
• 15.56
• 15.57
• 15.58
• 15.59
• 15.60
• 15.61
• 15.62
• 15.63
• 15.64
• 15.65
• 15.66
• 15.67
• 15.68
• 15.69
• 15.70
• 15.71
• 15.72
• 15.73
• 15.74
• 15.75
• 15.76
• 15.77
• 15.78
• 15.79
• 15.80
• 15.81
• 15.82
• 15.83
• 15.84
• 15.85
• 15.86
• 15.87
• 15.88.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/frappe/frappe/

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