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CVE-2025-30474 — commons-vfs2

MEDIUM

CVE-2025-30474 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5) Information Exposure vulnerability in org.apache.commons:commons-vfs2. A fix is available for org.apache.commons:commons-vfs2 — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Apache Commons VFS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Also known asGHSA-3936-3gx6-49c4
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 5, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-30474.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.9%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs59th percentile — riskier than 59% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.46%0.92%1.39%0.1%0.9%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
☕org.apache.commons:commons-vfs2

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Description

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS.

The FtpFileObject class can throw an exception when a file is not found, revealing the original URI in its message, which may include a password. The fix is to mask the password in the exception message This issue affects Apache Commons VFS: before 2.10.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10.0, which fixes the issue.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
☕Mavenorg.apache.commons:commons-vfs2all versions2.10.0org.apache.commons:commons-vfs2:2.10.0

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
commons vfsapache
< 2.10.0
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for org.apache.commons:commons-vfs2, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update org.apache.commons:commons-vfs2 to 2.10.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-30474 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.

Frequently Asked Questions

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS. The FtpFileObject class can throw an exception when a file is not found, revealing the original URI in its message, which may include a password. The fix is to mask the password in the exception message This issue affects Apache Commons VFS: before 2.10.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10.0, which fixes the issue.
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CVE-2025-30474: commons-vfs2 — Fixed in 2.10.0