---
id: 5444
title: "Anatomy of an Automated Patch: Fixing a File Upload RCE CVE-2025-59304"
cve: CVE-2025-59304
cvss: 9.8
severity: critical
source_domain: depthfirst.com
source_url: "https://depthfirst.com/research/anatomy-of-an-automated-patch-fixing-a-file-upload-rce-cve-2025-59304"
published_at: "2025-11-06T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["rce", "path-traversal", "automated-patching", "file-upload", "swetrix", "cve-2025-59304"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5444"
lang: en
---

# Anatomy of an Automated Patch: Fixing a File Upload RCE CVE-2025-59304

## Summary

The anatomy of an automated patch: a path traversal in Swetrix's CDN file upload allowed overwriting server files to achieve RCE; depthfirst's platform generated and merged the fix.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** depthfirst.com
- **CVE:** CVE-2025-59304
- **CVSS:** 9.8
- **Published:** 2025-11-06T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://depthfirst.com/research/anatomy-of-an-automated-patch-fixing-a-file-upload-rce-cve-2025-59304
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5444