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CVE-2025-52448: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (validate-initial-sql api…

HighCVSS 8.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.42% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Salesforce Tableau Server 2023.3.19, 2024.2.12, 2025.1.3.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Salesforce Tableau Server 2023.3.19, 2024.2.12, 2025.1.3 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (validate-initial-sql api modules) allows Interface Manipulation (data access to the production database cluster). This issue affects Tableau Server: before 2025.1.3, before 2024.2.12, before 2023.3.19.

Broken access control (IDOR)

BDU:2025-09793

Published: Jul 25, 2025
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 37th percentile
CWE: CWE-639

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
tableau	tableau server	cpe:2.3:a:tableau:tableau_server
linux	linux kernel	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel
microsoft	windows	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Salesforce). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Salesforce Tableau Server
- before 2025.1.3affected · semver
- before 2024.2.12affected · semver
- before 2023.3.19affected · semver

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

tableau tableau serverbefore 2023.3.19
tableau tableau server2024.2 and later · before 2024.2.12
tableau tableau server2025.1 and later · before 2025.1.3

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Salesforce Tableau Server	2023.3.19	Vendor (CNA)
Salesforce Tableau Server	2024.2.12	Vendor (CNA)
Salesforce Tableau Server	2025.1.3	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2025-524460 days apartAuthorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (tab-doc api modules) allows…
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CVE-2025-524470 days apartAuthorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server on Windows, Linux (set-initial-sql tabdoc…
32Monitor

Not on record for this CVE: EPSS history · patch commit or PR link · researcher credit · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd-secondary

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-639 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);
2res.json(invoice);

Fixed

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({
2  id: req.params.id,
3  ownerId: req.user.id,
4});
5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);
6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log (1)

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

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References

help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=005105043&type=1

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