CVE-2025-5138 | THREATINT

Description

A vulnerability was found in Bitwarden up to 2.25.1. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component PDF File Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

In Bitwarden bis 2.25.1 wurde eine problematische Schwachstelle ausgemacht. Hierbei betrifft es unbekannten Programmcode der Komponente PDF File Handler. Durch Manipulieren mit unbekannten Daten kann eine cross site scripting-Schwachstelle ausgenutzt werden. Umgesetzt werden kann der Angriff über das Netzwerk. Der Exploit steht zur öffentlichen Verfügung.

Reserved 2025-05-23 | Published 2025-05-25 | Updated 2025-05-28 | Assigner VulDB

MEDIUM: 5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

LOW: 3.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

LOW: 3.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

4.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem types

Cross Site Scripting

Code Injection

Timeline

2025-05-23:	Advisory disclosed
2025-05-23:	VulDB entry created
2025-05-23:	VulDB entry last update

Credits

XU17 (VulDB User) reporter

References

vuldb.com/?id.310219 (VDB-310219 | Bitwarden PDF File cross site scripting) vdb-entry

vuldb.com/?ctiid.310219 (VDB-310219 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/?submit.572263 (Submit #572263 | Bitwarden ≤ 2.25.1 XSS) third-party-advisory

github.com/...ility in file upload function of Bitwarden.md exploit

cve.org (CVE-2025-5138)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-5138)

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