Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-25616

Medium

Published: 10 March 2025

Published
10 March 2025
Modified
13 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0057 68.7th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-25616 is an Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in Unifiedtransform version 2.0, published on 2025-03-10. The flaw allows students to modify rules for exams via the affected endpoint /exams/edit-rule?exam_rule_id=1. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) and maps to CWE-284 (Improper Access Control) as well as NVD-CWE-Other.

The vulnerability can be exploited by low-privilege users, such as authenticated students, over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation enables modification of exam rules, leading to a low-impact integrity violation while preserving confidentiality and availability.

Advisories and related details are provided in the GitHub repositories at https://github.com/armaansidana2003/CVE-2025-25616 and https://github.com/changeweb/Unifiedtransform.

Details

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-OtherCWE-284

Affected Products

changeweb
unifiedtransform
2.0

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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.
Why these techniques?

Incorrect access control vulnerability in public-facing web application (/exams/edit-rule endpoint) allows authenticated low-privilege users (students) to perform unauthorized administrative actions like modifying exam rules, enabling exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and exploitation for privilege escalation (T1068).

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