Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Weaviate OSS before 1.33.4. An attacker with access to insert data into the database can craft an entry name with an absolute path (e.g., /etc/...) or use parent directory traversal (../../..) to escape the restore root when a backup is restored, potentially creating or overwriting files in arbitrary locations within the application's privilege scope.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2025-67818
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 15:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Weaviate OSS before 1.33.4. An attacker with access to insert data into the database can craft an entry name with an absolute path (e.g., /etc/...) or use parent directory traversal (../../..) to escape the restore root when a backup is restored, potentially creating or overwriting files in arbitrary locations within the application's privilege scope.
osv:CVE-2025-67818
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:29.720207591Z",
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-67818",
"https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate",
"https://weaviate.io/blog/weaviate-security-release-november-2025"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2025-12-12T00:00:00+00:00"
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