CVE-2025-27101

Broken Access Control in Opal filesystem's copy functionality exposes all user data

HIGH
7.3
CVSS Score
Published: March 11, 2025 at 09:32 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:03 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpal

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Severity
HIGH7.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Opal is OBiBa’s core database application for biobanks or epidemiological studies. Prior to version 5.1.1, when copying any parent directory to a folder in the /temp/ directory, all files in that parent directory are copied, including files which the user should not have access to. All users of the application are impacted, as this is exploitable by any user to reveal all files in the opal filesystem. This also means that low-privilege users such as DataShield users can retrieve the files of other users. Version 5.1.1 contains a patch for the issue.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 5.1.1
Affected range stops below 5.1.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

7.3HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-22

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