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CVE-2025-55194: Part-DB Persistent Denial of Service via Uncaught Exception from Misleading File Extension in Avatar Upload

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-08-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-248

Description

Part-DB is an open source inventory management system for electronic components. Prior to version 1.17.3, any authenticated user can upload a profile picture with a misleading file extension (e.g., .jpg.txt), resulting in a persistent 500 Internal Server Error when attempting to view or edit that user’s profile. This makes the profile permanently inaccessible via the UI for both users and administrators, constituting a Denial of Service (DoS) within the user management interface. This issue has been patched in version 1.17.3.

Affected products

• Part-DB-server: before 1.17.3 — fixed in 1.17.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Part-DB-server 1.17.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/10exp_BS9kRKHrFSPjiA_ZYUVJbHN8doW/view
• https://github.com/Part-DB/Part-DB-server/commit/d370f976a7b0c19d502aadbaa0f93eb90c2a6ffa
• https://github.com/Part-DB/Part-DB-server/security/advisories/GHSA-7rv3-rcxv-69ww
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/10exp_BS9kRKHrFSPjiA_ZYUVJbHN8doW/view
• https://github.com/Part-DB/Part-DB-server/security/advisories/GHSA-7rv3-rcxv-69ww

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