Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-26375

High

Published: 12 February 2025

Published
12 February 2025
Modified
10 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.9th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may create a local account to maintain access to victim systems.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-26375 is a CWE-862 Missing Authorization vulnerability in the maxprofile/users/routes.lua component of Q-Free MaxTime versions less than or equal to 2.11.0. Published on 2025-02-12, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The issue stems from inadequate authorization checks, enabling improper user creation functionality.

A low-privileged authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction. By sending crafted HTTP requests to the affected endpoint, the attacker can create new user accounts with arbitrary privileges, potentially escalating their access to administrative levels and compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system.

Mitigation details are available in the advisory published by Nozomi Networks Labs at https://www.nozominetworks.com/labs/vulnerability-advisories-cve-2025-26375.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-862

Affected Products

q-free
maxtime
≤ 2.11.0

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
T1136 Create Account Persistence
Adversaries may create an account to maintain access to victim systems.
T1136.001 Local Account Persistence
Adversaries may create a local account to maintain access to victim systems.
Why these techniques?

Missing authorization allows authenticated low-privileged attackers to create new local user accounts with arbitrary administrative privileges via crafted HTTP requests, enabling exploitation for privilege escalation (T1068) and local account creation (T1136/T1136.001).

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