{"id":59834,"date":"2025-08-02T22:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:37:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-01T05:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:38:04","slug":"cve-2025-52447-authorization-bypass-vulnerability-in-salesforce-tableau-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52447-authorization-bypass-vulnerability-in-salesforce-tableau-server\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-52447: Authorization Bypass Vulnerability in Salesforce Tableau Server<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cybersecurity world is once again in the spotlight, this time revolving around a critical vulnerability found in Salesforce&#8217;s Tableau Server. This vulnerability, known as CVE-2025-52447, affects both Windows and Linux platforms and has been identified as an Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability. The discovery of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8060-critical-vulnerability-in-tenda-ac23-leading-to-stack-based-buffer-overflow\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"67895\">vulnerability is significant as it can potentially lead<\/a> to system compromise or data leakage, posing serious threats to businesses and organizations using the affected server.<br \/>\nThe severity of this issue is heightened by the fact that it allows Interface Manipulation, granting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-50105-critical-vulnerability-in-oracle-universal-work-queue-allowing-unauthorized-data-access\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68813\">unauthorized data<\/a> access to the production database cluster. This is a grave concern for any organization, as this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-41668-critical-file-replacement-leading-to-unauthorized-access\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"67896\">unauthorized access could lead<\/a> to the exposure of confidential and sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-52447<br \/>\nSeverity: High (CVSS: 8.1)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-36600-dell-bios-improper-access-control-vulnerability-allows-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70350\">Potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-28142165\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>Tableau Server on Windows | before 2025.1.3<br \/>\nTableau Server on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-6297-exploitation-of-dpkg-deb-extraction-vulnerability\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91997\">Linux<\/a> | before 2025.1.3<br \/>\nTableau Server on Windows | before 2024.2.12<br \/>\nTableau Server on Linux | before 2024.2.12<br \/>\nTableau Server on Windows | before 2023.3.19<br \/>\nTableau Server on Linux | before 2023.3.19<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-31854-critical-tls-server-certificate-validation-vulnerability-in-sicam-toolbox-ii\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70028\">vulnerability arises from the way the server<\/a> handles the &#8216;set-initial-sql tabdoc&#8217; command modules. A well-crafted command may allow an attacker to manipulate the user interface, thereby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52448-critical-authorization-bypass-vulnerability-in-salesforce-tableau-server\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68812\">bypassing authorization<\/a> checks. This ultimately grants the attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54378-unauthorized-access-vulnerability-in-hax-cms\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68892\">unauthorized access<\/a> to the production database cluster where they can potentially retrieve, alter, or delete sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-476692695\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Although we won&#8217;t provide a direct exploit code to prevent misuse, the conceptual code might look something like this:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/set-initial-sql\/tabdoc HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/json\n{ &quot;user_controlled_key&quot;: &quot;bypass_authorization:true&quot; }<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above example, the &#8216;user_controlled_key&#8217; is manipulated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-52446-authorization-bypass-vulnerability-in-salesforce-tableau-server\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70349\">bypass the authorization<\/a> check. The server, failing to validate the legitimacy of the command, grants the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-25268-unauthenticated-adjacent-attacker-accessing-api-endpoint\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"77727\">attacker access<\/a> to the production database cluster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The cybersecurity world is once again in the spotlight, this time revolving around a critical vulnerability found in Salesforce&#8217;s Tableau Server. This vulnerability, known as CVE-2025-52447, affects both Windows and Linux platforms and has been identified as an Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability. The discovery of this vulnerability is significant as it can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[88,82],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-59834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","vendor-linux","vendor-microsoft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59834"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85202,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834\/revisions\/85202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=59834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}