CVE-2025-12060 (GCVE-0-2025-12060)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-30 17:10 – Updated: 2026-02-26 16:56
VLAI
Title
Keras keras.utils.get_file Utility Path Traversal Vulnerability
Summary
The keras.utils.get_file API in Keras, when used with the extract=True option for tar archives, is vulnerable to a path traversal attack. The utility uses Python's tarfile.extractall function without the filter="data" feature. A remote attacker can craft a malicious tar archive containing special symlinks, which, when extracted, allows them to write arbitrary files to any location on the filesystem outside of the intended destination folder. This vulnerability is linked to the underlying Python tarfile weakness, identified as CVE-2025-4517. Note that upgrading Python to one of the versions that fix CVE-2025-4517 (e.g. Python 3.13.4) is not enough. One additionally needs to upgrade Keras to a version with the fix (Keras 3.12).
Severity
8.9 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-01 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
Google CNA under the Google root
CNA scorecard B 77/100 over 38 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Keras Keras Affected: 3.0.0 , ≤ 3.11.3 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:keras:keras:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Krishna Gudimetla
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.