CVE-2025-66905

HIGH 7.5CVE-2025-66905 · Published 19/12/2025 · updated 13/10/2026

In short

CVE-2025-66905 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting tkfiles (takes).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.61%, higher than 49.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
tkfiles takes	`= 2.0`	No fix yet

Description

The Takes web framework's TkFiles take thru 2.0-SNAPSHOT fails to canonicalize HTTP request paths before resolving them against the filesystem. A remote attacker can include ../ sequences in the request path to escape the configured base directory and read arbitrary files from the host system.

References

Xzzz111/public_cve_report · Exploit
yegor256/takes · Product

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