CVE-2025-0994 — Cityworks
HIGHCVE-2025-0994 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in trimble cityworks. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-02-07) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Trimble Cityworks versions prior to 15.8.9 and Cityworks with office companion versions prior to 23.10 are vulnerable to a deserialization vulnerability. This could allow an authenticated…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-02-07. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-02-28.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-0994.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2025-0994 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 10–50% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Trimble Cityworks versions prior to 15.8.9 and Cityworks with office companion versions prior to 23.10 are vulnerable to a deserialization vulnerability. This could allow an authenticated user to perform a remote code execution attack against a customer’s Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server.
Affected Products
cityworkstrimbleResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every trimble cityworks deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the trimble cityworks security patch or hotfix for CVE-2025-0994 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Do not deserialise data from untrusted sources: where the format allows it, restrict deserialisation to an explicit allowlist of expected types, and prefer a data-only format (JSON, Protobuf) over one that can reconstruct arbitrary objects until you can upgrade. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2025-0994 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.