Vulnerability details

CVE-2025-1087

Kong Insomnia

Arbitrary Code Execution in Kong Insomnia Desktop Application

CVSS 4.0
9.3Critical

Official description

Kong Insomnia Desktop Application before 11.0.2 contains a template injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing template strings, which can lead to arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of the application.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.3Critical 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Kong) CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Kong Inc. Insomnia v ≤ 11.0.2 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

2
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Details

Published
2025-05-09
Last updated
2025-09-17
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Kong

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.13%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
66.5%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-20
    Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-94
    Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')