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TI-2025-01158 Aliases CVE-2025-1353GHSA-8jx3-cx25-4j8f

Kong Insomnia profapi.dll untrusted search path

Priority LOW 33CWE-426Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-426.

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Kong Insomnia up to 10.3.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing in the library profapi.dll. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. An attack has to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The vendor is not able to reproduce the issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0021 11th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Kong Inc.Insomnia10.0; 10.1; 10.2; 10.3—No fix listedCNA
  • Insomnia VendorKong Inc. Affected 10.0; 10.1; 10.2; 10.3 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-1353
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8jx3-cx25-4j8f

References

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  • TI-2020-17871 The official kong docker images before 1.0.2-alpine (Alpine specific) contain a blank… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2025-00925 Arbitrary Code Execution in Kong Insomnia Desktop Application CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-12562 Kong API Gateway Enterprise: SAML Authentication bypass CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
  • TI-2026-12561 Kong API Gateway Enterprise: JWT Algorithm-Confusion CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
  • TI-2020-18854 Kong lua-multipart multipart.lua is_header redos CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-70893 SQL injection in Kong Gateway clustering communication CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.5
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Sources

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