RHSA-2025:10548 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for apache-commons-vfs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Commons VFS provides a single API for accessing various different file systems. It presents a uniform view of the files from various different sources, such as the files on local disk, on an HTTP server, or inside a Zip archive. Some of the features of Commons VFS are:

• A single consistent API for accessing files of different

types.

• Support for numerous file system types.
• Caching of file information. Caches information in-JVM,

and optionally can cache remote file information on the
local file system.

• Event delivery.
• Support for logical file systems made up of files from

various different file systems.

• Utilities for integrating Commons VFS into applications,

such as a VFS-aware ClassLoader and URLStreamHandlerFactory.

• A set of VFS-enabled Ant tasks.

Security Fix(es):

• apache-commons-vfs: Apache Commons VFS: Possible path traversal issue when using NameScope.DESCENDENT (CVE-2025-27553)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2354334 - CVE-2025-27553 apache-commons-vfs: Apache Commons VFS: Possible path traversal issue when using NameScope.DESCENDENT

CVEs

• CVE-2025-27553

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate