CVE-2025-25928

HighPublic PoC

Published: 11 March 2025

Published

11 March 2025

Modified

07 July 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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

EPSS Score 0.0021 43.6th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-25928 is a high-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Openmrs Openmrs. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 43.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-23 (Session Authenticity) and IA-11 (Re-authentication).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) 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

SC-23 Session Authenticity good match

prevent

SC-23 requires protections for session authenticity, such as CSRF tokens, directly preventing forged requests to the /admin/users/user.form endpoint that enable privilege escalation.

IA-11 Re-authentication partial match

prevent

IA-11 mandates re-authentication for sensitive activities like user privilege changes, blocking CSRF exploits lacking fresh credentials.

SI-10 Information Input Validation partial match

prevent

SI-10 enforces information input validation at system boundaries, supporting CSRF token checks to reject forged requests on the vulnerable user.form endpoint.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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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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Why these techniques?

CSRF vuln in web app endpoint enables forged requests for unauthorized privilege escalation to admin role (T1068) via exploitation of public-facing application (T1190).

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

NVD Description

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the component /admin/users/user.form of Openmrs 2.4.3 Build 0ff0ed allows attackers to execute arbitrary operations via a crafted request. In this case, an attacker could elevate a low-privileged account to an administrative role by leveraging…

the CSRF vulnerability at the /admin/users/user.form endpoint.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-25928 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-352, affecting the /admin/users/user.form component in OpenMRS 2.4.3 Build 0ff0ed. Published on 2025-03-11, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.0 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H). The issue enables attackers to execute arbitrary operations through crafted requests targeting this endpoint.

A low-privileged authenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into performing an action, such as visiting a malicious site that submits a forged request to the /admin/users/user.form endpoint. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to elevate a low-privileged account to an administrative role.

Mitigation details and further technical analysis, including a proof-of-concept, are documented in the referenced GitHub repositories at https://github.com/johnchd/CVEs/blob/main/OpenMRS/CVE-2025-25928%20-%20CSRF%20PrivEsc.md.