Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2025-11965 json

Vert.x-Web Access Control Flaw in StaticHandler’s Hidden File Protection for Files Under Hidden Directories

published 2025-10-22 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-h5fg-jpgr-rv9c , EUVD-2025-35593

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Eclipse Vert.x versions [4.0.0, 4.5.21] and [5.0.0, 5.0.4], a StaticHandler configuration for restricting access to hidden files fails to restrict access to hidden directories, allowing unauthorized users to retrieve files within them (e.g. '.git/config').

Patch / fix

  • maven io.vertx:vertx-web 4.5.22, 5.0.5
  • Eclipse Foundation Vert.x 4.5.22, 5.0.5

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-11965 updated cvss 5.3

io.vertx/vertx-core: Eclipse Vert.x Access Control Flaw

  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 vertx-core Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-receiver-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-dispatcher-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-log-sink-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-s3-sink-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sns-sink-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sqs-sink-rhel8, +4 more Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 vertx-core Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 vertx-core Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 vertx-core Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 vertx-core
    +9 more products
    Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3 vertx-core Red Hat build of Debezium 2 vertx-core Red Hat build of Debezium 3 vertx-core Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 vertx-core Red Hat build of Quarkus vertx-core Red Hat Data Grid 8 vertx-core Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 resteasy, resteasy-javadoc Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 resteasy, pki-resteasy-core, pki-resteasy-client, pki-resteasy-jackson2-provider, pki-resteasy-servlet-initializer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 moditect
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 vertx-core
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 vertx-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 vertx-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack vertx-core Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-trustyai-service-rhel8, rhoai/odh-trustyai-service-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/server-rhel9 Red Hat Process Automation 7 vertx-core
    +1 more products
    Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 2 vertx-core
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 3.1.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:23417

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
12 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven io.vertx:vertx-web
<4.5.22
>=5.0.0, <5.0.5
4.5.22
5.0.5

Affected products

  • Eclipse Foundation Vert.x

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.