# CVE-2025-49493: CloudTest - XXE

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-49493 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-49493

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 5.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Akamai CloudTest
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-611 (Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference)

## Description

Akamai CloudTest before 60 2025.06.02 (12988) allows file inclusion via XML External Entity (XXE) injection.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-49493](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49493) is a vulnerability in Akamai CloudTest prior to version 60 2025.06.02 (12988) that allows attackers to exploit XML External Entity (XXE) injection, potentially leading to unauthorized file inclusion. This flaw could be leveraged by threat actors to access sensitive files, perform server-side request forgery (SSRF), or exfiltrate confidential data from the affected system.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 16th of July 2025.

Data from the CrowdSec community indicates that exploitation of CVE-2025-49493 is highly selective and intelligence-driven. Threat actors use advanced reconnaissance and carefully choose their targets, often as part of sophisticated campaigns or advanced persistent threat operations.
CrowdSec network telemetry also shows that exploitation of CVE-2025-49493 has significantly declined over the past week. Attack volumes are well below the long-term average, suggesting attackers are rapidly losing interest. The vulnerability appears to be falling out of active use across most threat landscapes.

Attackers exploit Akamai CloudTest by sending POST requests to `/concerto/services/RepositoryService` with malicious XML payloads to trigger XXE vulnerabilities and potentially exfiltrate sensitive files.

## Timeline

- 2025-06-30: CVE Published. CVE-2025-49493 is published to NVD.
- 2025-07-16: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-49493 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-07-22: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-49493 for the first time.

## References

- https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloudtest/changelog/june-2-2025-enhancements-and-bug-fixes/
- https://www.akamai.com/products/cloudtest
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-49493.yaml

## Live exploitation data

The [Live Exploit Tracker page](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-49493) follows observed exploitation activity for CVE-2025-49493. [Request an API key](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/request-api-key) for full access to its exploitation timeline, attacking IP addresses and blocklists.