Kong Insomnia profapi.dll untrusted search path

published 2025-02-16 20 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-2114

cvss: 7.0; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability was found in Kong Insomnia up to 10.3.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing in the library profapi.dll. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. An attack has to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The vendor is not able to reproduce the issue.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 20 mo ago (2025-02-19)

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	4.0	7.3	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA	3.1	7.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA	3.0	7.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA	2.0	6.0	AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CNA	4.0	7.3	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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

Affected products

Kong Insomnia

Classification

Weakness

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

References

vuldb.com /?id.295961
vdb-entry, technical-description
vuldb.com /?ctiid.295961
signature, permissions-required
vuldb.com /?submit.496010
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-1353
NVD CVE-2025-1353

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Summary