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Fencer Vulns
high 8.2

CVE-2025-25205 json

Remote Authentication-Bypass can lead to server crash or limited information disclosure due to faulty pattern matching

published 2025-02-12 20 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-4091

cvss
8.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Starting in version 2.17.0 and prior to version 2.19.1, a flaw in the authentication bypass logic allows unauthenticated requests to match certain unanchored regex patterns in the URL. Attackers can craft URLs containing substrings like "/api/items/1/cover" in a query parameter (?r=/api/items/1/cover) to partially bypass authentication or trigger server crashes under certain routes. This could lead to information disclosure of otherwise protected data and, in some cases, a complete denial of service (server crash) if downstream code expects an authenticated user object. Version 2.19.1 contains a patch for the issue.

Patch / fix

  • audiobookshelf audiobookshelf 2.19.1

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/scanner/http/audiobookshelf_auth_bypass)
  2. Published

CISA SSVC

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

Exploit prediction

4.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • advplyr audiobookshelf

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-202 Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Data Queries
  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.