CVE-2025-14195
Published: 07 December 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-14195 is a low-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in Carmelogarcia Employee Profile Management System. Its CVSS base score is 2.1 (Low).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 3.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-201604
Vulnerability details
A security flaw has been discovered in code-projects Employee Profile Management System 1.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /profiling/add_file_query.php. The manipulation of the argument per_file results in unrestricted upload. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit…
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has been released to the public and may be used for attacks.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The unrestricted file upload vulnerability in a public-facing web application (add_file_query.php) enables remote exploitation (T1190) and facilitates deployment of web shells by allowing upload and execution of arbitrary PHP files in a web-accessible directory (T1505.003).
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
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.
This control enforces ownership-based restrictions on portable storage device use, directly implementing access control over media insertion into organizational systems.
Hardware write-protect enforces access control on critical resources (e.g., firmware) independent of software state.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Explicitly identifying and documenting actions permitted without identification or authentication enforces proper access control boundaries by defining justified exceptions.
By automatically labeling outputs with security attributes, the control supports attribute-based enforcement and reduces exploitability of improper access control weaknesses.
Associating and retaining security attributes with data directly supports enforcement of access control decisions across storage, processing, and transmission.