CVE-2025-27137
Dependency-Track vulnerable to local file inclusion via custom notification templates
Dependency-Track is a component analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Dependency-Track allows users with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to customize notification templates. Templates are evaluated using the Pebble template engine. Pebble supports an include tag, which allows template authors to include the content of arbitrary files upon evaluation. Prior to version 4.12.6, users of Dependency-Track with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission can abuse the include tag by crafting notification templates that include sensitive local files, such as /etc/passwd or /proc/1/environ. By configuring such a template for a notification rule (aka "Alert"), and having it send notifications to a destination controlled by the actor, sensitive information may be leaked. The issue has been fixed in Dependency-Track 4.12.6. In fixed versions, the include tag can no longer be used. Usage of the tag will cause template evaluation to fail. As a workaround, avoid assigning the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to untrusted users. The SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission per default is only granted to members of the Administrators team. Assigning this permission to non-administrative users or teams is a security risk in itself, and highly discouraged.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
4.4
Dependency-Track vulnerable to local file inclusion via custom notification templates
Dependency-Track is a component analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Dependency-Track allows users with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to customize notification templates. Templates are evaluated using the Pebble template engine. Pebble supports an include tag, which allows template authors to include the content of arbitrary files upon evaluation. Prior to version 4.12.6, users of Dependency-Track with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission can abuse the include tag by crafting notification templates that include sensitive local files, such as /etc/passwd or /proc/1/environ. By configuring such a template for a notification rule (aka "Alert"), and having it send notifications to a destination controlled by the actor, sensitive information may be leaked. The issue has been fixed in Dependency-Track 4.12.6. In fixed versions, the include tag can no longer be used. Usage of the tag will cause template evaluation to fail. As a workaround, avoid assigning the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to untrusted users. The SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission per default is only granted to members of the Administrators team. Assigning this permission to non-administrative users or teams is a security risk in itself, and highly discouraged.
- Record
CVE-2025-27137- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-73
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-5076
4.4
Dependency-Track is a component analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Dependency-Track allows users with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to customize notification templates. Templates are evaluated using the Pebble template engine. Pebble supports an include tag, which allows template authors to include the content of arbitrary files upon evaluation. Prior to version 4.12.6, users of Dependency-Track with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission can abuse the include tag by crafting notification templates that include sensitive local files, such as /etc/passwd or /proc/1/environ. By configuring such a template for a notification rule (aka "Alert"), and having it send notifications to a destination controlled by the actor, sensitive information may be leaked. The issue has been fixed in Dependency-Track 4.12.6. In fixed versions, the include tag can no longer be used. Usage of the tag will cause template evaluation to fail. As a workaround, avoid assigning the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to untrusted users. The SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission per default is only granted to members of the Administrators team. Assigning this permission to non-administrative users or teams is a security risk in itself, and highly discouraged.
- Record
EUVD-2025-5076- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
4.4
Dependency-Track is a component analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Dependency-Track allows users with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to customize notification templates. Templates are evaluated using the Pebble template engine. Pebble supports an include tag, which allows template authors to include the content of arbitrary files upon evaluation. Prior to version 4.12.6, users of Dependency-Track with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission can abuse the include tag by crafting notification templates that include sensitive local files, such as /etc/passwd or /proc/1/environ. By configuring such a template for a notification rule (aka "Alert"), and having it send notifications to a destination controlled by the actor, sensitive information may be leaked. The issue has been fixed in Dependency-Track 4.12.6. In fixed versions, the include tag can no longer be used. Usage of the tag will cause template evaluation to fail. As a workaround, avoid assigning the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to untrusted users. The SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission per default is only granted to members of the Administrators team. Assigning this permission to non-administrative users or teams is a security risk in itself, and highly discouraged.
- Record
CVE-2025-27137- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-73
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
4.4
Dependency-Track vulnerable to local file inclusion via custom notification templates
Dependency-Track is a component analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Dependency-Track allows users with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to customize notification templates. Templates are evaluated using the Pebble template engine. Pebble supports an include tag, which allows template authors to include the content of arbitrary files upon evaluation. Prior to version 4.12.6, users of Dependency-Track with the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission can abuse the include tag by crafting notification templates that include sensitive local files, such as /etc/passwd or /proc/1/environ. By configuring such a template for a notification rule (aka "Alert"), and having it send notifications to a destination controlled by the actor, sensitive information may be leaked. The issue has been fixed in Dependency-Track 4.12.6. In fixed versions, the include tag can no longer be used. Usage of the tag will cause template evaluation to fail. As a workaround, avoid assigning the SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission to untrusted users. The SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION permission per default is only granted to members of the Administrators team. Assigning this permission to non-administrative users or teams is a security risk in itself, and highly discouraged.
- Record
CVE-2025-27137- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-73
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-27137 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.4) in Dependencytrack Dependency-track, published February 24, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.19%, the 8th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
github.com/DependencyTrack/dependency-track/security/advisories/GHSA-9582-88hr-54w3
github.com/JLLeitschuh/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p75g-cxfj-7wrx
github.com/PebbleTemplates/pebble/issues/680
github.com/DependencyTrack/dependency-track/pull/4684
github.com/DependencyTrack/dependency-track/pull/4685
pebbletemplates.io/wiki/tag/include
github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/27xxx/CVE-2025-27137.json
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27137