Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-12082

Access Control in Salsa.Digital Civictheme Design System ≤ 1.12.0

Access Control
Published
30 October 2025
Modified
03 December 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0029 21th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-12082 is a high-severity Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) vulnerability in Salsa.Digital Civictheme Design System. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 21th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A01:2025 Broken Access Control

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Drupal CivicTheme Design System allows Forceful Browsing.This issue affects CivicTheme Design System: from 0.0.0 before 1.12.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-863

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-12083Same product: Salsa.Digital Civictheme Design System
CVE-2025-13979Same vendor: Salsa.Digital
CVE-2023-30840Shared CWE-863
CVE-2024-35353Shared CWE-863
CVE-2025-32068Shared CWE-863
CVE-2023-24052Shared CWE-863
CVE-2026-63733Shared CWE-863
CVE-2025-10016Shared CWE-863
CVE-2026-33650Shared CWE-863
CVE-2026-9808Shared CWE-863

Affected Assets

salsa.digital
civictheme design system
≤ 1.12.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 5 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Directly enforces correct authorization decisions to block forceful browsing of CivicTheme resources that should be inaccessible.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match
prevent

Limits privileges so that even if authorization checks are bypassed, the attacker gains minimal additional CivicTheme functionality.

AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement partial match
prevent

Enforces information-flow rules that would stop unauthorized traversal of CivicTheme URLs and data paths.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-05 mostly match
prevents

Defining, enforcing, and reviewing access authorizations and least privilege directly prevents incorrect authorization checks.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.5.15 Access control partial match
prevents

Requiring consistency between access rights and classification plus formal approval steps ensures that the authorization logic correctly distinguishes between entities that should and should not be granted access.

A.5.18 Access rights partial match
prevents

Enforcing policy-driven approval and role-change reviews stops incorrect or stale authorization decisions from remaining in effect after job changes or terminations.

A.8.3 Information access restriction partial match
prevents

By tying access rights to identity, device, location and classification, the control reduces the likelihood that an authorization decision will be based on an incorrect or bypassed policy.

References