Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-0171

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 02 January 2025

Published
02 January 2025
Modified
03 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-0171 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability in code-projects Chat System 1.0, affecting an unknown function in the file /admin/deleteuser.php. The issue arises from manipulation of the 'id' argument, enabling SQL injection as classified under CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command) and CWE-89 (SQL Injection). It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) and was published on 2025-01-02.

The vulnerability can be exploited remotely by attackers with low privileges, such as authenticated users, requiring no user interaction. Successful exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially enabling unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption via injected SQL payloads.

Advisories and references, including those from VulDB (ctiid.289938, id.289938, submit.473143) and a GitHub repository (Sinon2003/cve/blob/main/sql_inject1.md), document the issue but do not specify patches or mitigations. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used, as noted on code-projects.org.

Exploitation details are available publicly, increasing the risk for unpatched instances of Chat System 1.0.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-74CWE-89

Affected Products

code-projects
chat system
1.0

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1505 Server Software Component Persistence
Adversaries may abuse legitimate extensible development features of servers to establish persistent access to systems.
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T1213.006 Databases Collection
Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.
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Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public-facing web app (/admin/deleteuser.php) enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), abuse of server software components (T1505 as per advisory), and data collection from databases (T1213.006) via query manipulation and extraction.

References