CVE-2025-55149

Description

Tiny-Scientist is a lightweight framework for automating the entire lifecycle of scientific research—from ideation to implementation, writing, and review. In versions 0.1.1 and below, a critical path traversal vulnerability has been identified in the review_paper function in backend/app.py. The vulnerability allows malicious users to access arbitrary PDF files on the server by providing crafted file paths that bypass the intended security restrictions. This vulnerability allows attackers to: read any PDF file accessible to the server process, potentially access sensitive documents outside the intended directory and perform reconnaissance on the server's file system structure. This issue does not currently have a fix.

Reserved 2025-08-07 | Published 2025-08-09 | Updated 2025-08-09 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

<= 0.1.1
affected

References

github.com/...entist/security/advisories/GHSA-rrgf-hcr9-jq6h

cve.org (CVE-2025-55149)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-55149)

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