CVE-2025-10389
Published: 14 September 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-10389 is a medium-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266) vulnerability in Crmeb Crmeb. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 36.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Documented procedures facilitate correct implementation and ongoing management of authorization decisions.
Periodic reviews identify and correct flaws in authorization decisions or enforcement.
Specifying access authorizations for each account and requiring approvals for account requests enforces proper authorization decisions.
The control requires explicit definition of separated access authorizations, making incorrect privilege assignments that bundle conflicting duties harder to implement.
Ensures privileges are assigned only as necessary rather than incorrectly over-granted.
The control's documentation requirement reduces improper authorization by ensuring only mission-justified actions bypass authentication.
Establishing permitted attributes and values, plus auditing changes, ensures authorization decisions are based on correctly managed policy data.
Explicitly mandates authorizing remote access types before permitting connections, directly mitigating improper authorization.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Improper authorization (CWE-285) in CRMEB's admin password handler allows low-privilege users to remotely reset administrator passwords via ID manipulation, enabling exploitation of public-facing web applications (T1190), exploitation for privilege escalation (T1068), and account manipulation (T1098).
NVD Description
A security flaw has been discovered in CRMEB up to 5.6.1. Impacted is the function Save of the file app/services/system/admin/SystemAdminServices.php of the component Administrator Password Handler. Performing manipulation of the argument ID results in improper authorization. The attack may be…
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initiated remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be exploited. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-10389 is an improper authorization vulnerability affecting CRMEB versions up to 5.6.1. The issue is located in the Save function of the file app/services/system/admin/SystemAdminServices.php within the Administrator Password Handler component, where manipulation of the ID argument leads to inadequate access controls.
The vulnerability enables remote exploitation by low-privileged users, as indicated by its CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L). Attackers require network access and low privileges but no user interaction, achieving low impacts on integrity and availability with no confidentiality loss. Associated CWEs include CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment) and CWE-285 (Improper Authorization).
VulDB advisories note that a public exploit has been released, increasing the risk of active exploitation. The vendor was notified early about the disclosure but provided no response, implying no official patch or mitigation guidance is available from them at this time.
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