CVE-2025-2059
Published: 07 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-2059 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Emergency Ambulance Hiring Portal. 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 10.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-2059 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability (classified under CWE-74 and CWE-89) in PHPGurukul Emergency Ambulance Hiring Portal 1.0. The flaw resides in an unknown functionality of the /admin/booking-details.php file, where manipulation of the "ambulanceregnum" argument enables SQL code injection.
The vulnerability is exploitable remotely over the network with low complexity and no required privileges or user interaction, per its CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L). Attackers can achieve low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through unauthorized SQL operations.
Reference advisories on VulDB (ctiid.298814, id.298814, submit.514522) and a GitHub issue (siznwaa/CVE/issues/4) document the issue, with the vendor site at phpgurukul.com listed. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used by attackers.
In notable context, the public availability of the exploit elevates the risk for unpatched instances of this portal software.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-6221
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Emergency Ambulance Hiring Portal 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /admin/booking-details.php. The manipulation of the argument ambulanceregnum leads to sql injection. The attack may…
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be launched 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?
The unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the public-facing web application (/admin/booking-details.php) enables remote exploitation for initial access (T1190) and facilitates unauthorized data collection from the backend database via arbitrary SQL queries (T1213.006).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly mitigates the SQL injection vulnerability by requiring timely identification, reporting, and correction of the flaw in /admin/booking-details.php.
Prevents SQL injection by enforcing validation of the manipulable ambulanceregnum input parameter to ensure consistency with anticipated content.
Identifies the SQL injection vulnerability through regular vulnerability scanning, enabling proactive remediation before remote exploitation.