CVE-2023-25345 — Directory traversal vulnerability in swig-templates thru 2

Directory traversal vulnerability in swig-templates thru 2.0.4 and swig thru 1.4.2, allows attackers to read arbitrary files via the include or extends tags.

01What is this vulnerability?

Directory traversal vulnerability in swig-templates thru 2.0.4 and swig thru 1.4.2, allows attackers to read arbitrary files via the include or extends tags.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-27T18:28:56.823Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/node-swig/swig-templates/issues/88