Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS. The FtpFileObject class can throw an exception when a file is not found, revealing the original URI in its message, which may include a password. The fix is to mask the password in the exception message This issue affects Apache Commons VFS: before 2.10.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10.0, which fixes the issue.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS. The     FtpFileObject class can throw an exception when a file is not found, revealing the original URI in its     message, which may include a password. The fix is to mask the password in the exception message This issue     affects Apache Commons VFS: before 2.10.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10.0, which fixes     the issue. (CVE-2025-30474)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of apache-commons-vfs installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0-11. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2819 advisory.

    Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS.

    The FtpFileObject class can throw an exception when a file is not found, revealing the original URI in its     message, which may include a password. The fix is to mask the password in the exception messageThis issue     affects Apache Commons VFS: before 2.10.0.

    Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10.0, which fixes the issue. (CVE-2025-30474)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:1022-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-27553: Fixed possible path traversal issue when using NameScope.DESCENDENT (bsc#1239973)
    - CVE-2025-30474: Fixed information disclosure due to failing to find an FTP file reveal the URI's     password in an error message (bsc#1239974)

    Other fixes:
    - Upgrade to upstream version 2.10.0

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Commons VFS. The
    FtpFileObject class can throw an exception when a file is not found, revealing the original URI in its
    message, which may include a password. The fix is to mask the password in the exception message This issue
    affects Apache Commons VFS: before 2.10.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10.0, which fixes
    the issue. (CVE-2025-30474)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255943	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-30474	Nessus	Misc.	medium
234529	Amazon Linux 2 : apache-commons-vfs (ALAS-2025-2819)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
233401	openSUSE 15 Security Update : apache-commons-vfs2 (SUSE-SU-2025:1022-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
421220	SCA: security update for org.apache.commons:commons-vfs2 (GHSA-3936-3gx6-49c4)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
421220	SCA: security update for org.apache.commons:commons-vfs2 (GHSA-3936-3gx6-49c4)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium

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