Vulnerability · Published Jan 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-68705RustFS Path Traversal Vulnerability

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity path traversal in rustfs from rustfs. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 7.3% (higher than 94% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 4.0)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)7.3%top 5.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

RustFS is a distributed object storage system built in Rust. In versions 1.0.0-alpha.13 to 1.0.0-alpha.78, RustFS contains a path traversal vulnerability in the /rustfs/rpc/read_file_stream endpoint. This issue has been patched in version 1.0.0-alpha.79.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
rustfs rustfs >= 1.0.0-alpha.13, < 1.0.0-alpha.79

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

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