CVE-2025-52451
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tabdoc...
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tabdoc api - create-data-source-from-file-upload modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal.This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tabdoc api - create-data-source-from-file-upload modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal.This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.
- Record
CVE-2025-52451- CVSS 3.1
- 8.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-28433
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tabdoc api - create-data-source-from-file-upload modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal.This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.
- Record
EUVD-2025-28433- CVSS 3.1
- 8.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-wh5c-wfpr-wpfp
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tabdoc...
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tabdoc api - create-data-source-from-file-upload modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal.This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.
- Record
GHSA-wh5c-wfpr-wpfp- CVSS 3.1
- 8.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tabdoc api - create-data-source-from-file-upload modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal.This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.
- Record
CVE-2025-52451- CVSS 3.1
- 8.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-52451 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.5) in Salesforce Tableau Server, published August 22, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.21%, the 11th percentile. No source names a fixed version.