CVE-2025-25185: GPT Academic allows arbitary file read by tarfile uncompress within softlink
Description
GPT Academic provides interactive interfaces for large language models. In 3.91 and earlier, GPT Academic does not properly account for soft links. An attacker can create a malicious file as a soft link pointing to a target file, then package this soft link file into a tar.gz file and upload it. Subsequently, when accessing the decompressed file from the server, the soft link will point to the target file on the victim server. The vulnerability allows attackers to read all files on the server.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-25185
CVSS Base Severity: HIGH
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products
Vendor: binary-husky
Product: gpt_academic
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.07% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 18.26% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-04-01 (when was this score calculated)
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)
SSVC Exploitation: poc
SSVC Technical Impact: partial
SSVC Automatable: true
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-25185https://github.com/binary-husky/gpt_academic/security/advisories/GHSA-gqp5-wm97-qxcv
https://github.com/binary-husky/gpt_academic/commit/5dffe8627f681d7006cebcba27def038bb691949