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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2025-49656 json

Apache Jena: Administrative users can create files outside the server directory space via the admin UI

published 2025-07-21 15 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-22076 , GHSA-jq2c-m8gg-mqcm

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Users with administrator access can create databases files outside the files area of the Fuseki server.

This issue affects Apache Jena version up to 5.4.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 5.5.0, which fixes the issue.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.jena:jena-fuseki 5.5.0
  • apache jena 5.5.0
  • org.apache.jena jena-fuseki 5.5.0

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-2025-49656 updated cvss 6.5

org.apache.jena/jena-arq: Apache Jena path traversal

  • Red Hat AMQ Clients jena-arq Red Hat Data Grid 8 jena-arq Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 jena-arq Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 jena-arq Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack jena-arq
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA 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 org.apache.jena:jena-fuseki
<5.5.0
5.5.0

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Jena

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

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.