CVE-2025-1815
Published: 02 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-1815 is a medium-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 6.9 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 7.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-24 (Access Control Decisions) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-1815 is a critical improper authorization vulnerability in pbrong hrms versions up to 1.0.1. It affects the HrmsDB function in the file \resource\resource.go, where manipulation of the user_cookie argument enables unauthorized access. The issue, published on 2025-03-02, carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) and maps to CWEs 266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment) and 285 (Improper Authorization).
The vulnerability allows remote attackers with no privileges or user interaction to exploit it over the network with low complexity. Successful exploitation grants limited unauthorized access, resulting in low impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as potential data exposure or minor system modifications due to the authorization bypass.
Advisories and details are available via VulDB entries (ctiid.298083, id.298083, submit.506544) and GitHub issues at A7cc/cve #4, including a disclosed exploit that may be used publicly. No specific patches or mitigations are detailed in the provided references.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-5866
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in pbrong hrms up to 1.0.1. This affects the function HrmsDB of the file \resource\resource.go. The manipulation of the argument user_cookie leads to improper authorization. It is possible to initiate the…
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attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Direct authorization bypass in a network-accessible HRMS web application function (user_cookie manipulation) enables remote exploitation of a public-facing app without credentials.
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces approved authorizations for logical access, directly preventing unauthorized access resulting from improper authorization via user_cookie manipulation.
Authorizes access based on valid authorization information, countering bypasses from manipulated user_cookie arguments in the HrmsDB function.
Limits access to only authorized privileges necessary for tasks, reducing impact of authorization bypass even if initial enforcement fails.