CVE-2025-24527

High

Published: 29 January 2025

Published

29 January 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0013 31.4th percentile

Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24527 is a high-severity Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732) vulnerability in Akamai Enterprise Application (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 31.4th 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).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match

prevent

Enforces approved authorizations to block execution of debug commands on other tenants' connectors even if the 128-bit GUID is known.

AC-6 Least Privilege good match

prevent

Restricts high-privileged administrators to only the privileges necessary for their own tenant, preventing cross-tenant debug command execution.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions good match

prevent

Authorizes access to connectors based on access control policies that validate tenant ownership tied to the requesting administrator's privileges.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution

Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.

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Why these techniques?

Vulnerability in Akamai EAA (network-accessible application) due to improper permissions allows authenticated admin to execute debug commands on remote tenant connector, directly enabling exploitation of public-facing app and command/scripting interpreter execution on target system.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

NVD Description

An issue was discovered in Akamai Enterprise Application Access (EAA) before 2025-01-17. If an admin knows another tenant's 128-bit connector GUID, they can execute debug commands on that connector.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-24527 affects Akamai Enterprise Application Access (EAA) versions prior to 2025-01-17. The vulnerability stems from improper permission assignment (CWE-732), allowing an administrator who knows another tenant's 128-bit connector GUID to execute debug commands on that connector. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.0 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity with network accessibility but requiring high privileges and attack complexity.

Exploitation is feasible by a high-privileged administrator (PR:H) with network access to the EAA deployment and prior knowledge of the target tenant's 128-bit connector GUID, which contributes to the high attack complexity (AC:H). Successful attacks enable execution of debug commands on the victim's connector, potentially resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability within the scoped environment (S:C).

Akamai's EAA changelog provides details on mitigation, including the fix introduced in version 2025-01-17. Security practitioners should consult the advisories at https://techdocs.akamai.com/eaa/changelog and https://techdocs.akamai.com/eaa/changelog/january-29-2025 for patching instructions and upgrade guidance.