Vulnerability · Published Feb 16, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2025-1353Kong Insomnia profapi.dll untrusted search path

High 7.0

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Insomnia from Kong. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.0High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 88.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability was found in Kong Insomnia up to 10.3.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing in the library profapi.dll. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. An attack has to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The vendor is not able to reproduce the issue.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Kong	Insomnia	10.010.110.210.3

Weakness: CWE-426 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

VDB-295961 | Kong Insomnia profapi.dll untrusted search path vdb-entry, technical-description
VDB-295961 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA) signature, permissions-required
Submit #496010 | Kong Insomnia 10.3.0 Command Injection third-party-advisory