{"id":68315,"date":"2025-08-18T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-5296-apache-link-following-privilege-escalation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:01:47","slug":"cve-2025-5296-apache-link-following-privilege-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-5296-apache-link-following-privilege-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-5296 &#8211; Apache Link Following Privilege Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-5296<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 18, 2025, 8:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 55\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (&#8216;Link Following&#8217;) vulnerability exists that could cause<br \/>\narbitrary data to be written to protected locations, potentially leading to escalation of privilege, arbitrary file<br \/>\ncorruption, exposure of application and system information or persistent denial of service when a low-privileged<br \/>\nattacker tampers with the installation folder.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 7.3 | HIGH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-5296 Published : Aug. 18, 2025, 8:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 55\u00a0minutes ago Description : CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (&#8216;Link Following&#8217;) vulnerability exists that could cause arbitrary data to be written to protected locations, potentially leading to escalation of privilege, arbitrary file corruption, exposure of application and system information or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}