CVE-2025-27583

Critical

Published: 03 March 2025

Published

03 March 2025

Modified

27 June 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0008 23.2th percentile

Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-27583 is a critical-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability in Serosoft Academia Student Information System. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 23.2th 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-14 (Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication) and AC-2 (Account Management).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 3 other techniques. 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

Requires enforcement of approved authorizations for logical access, directly mitigating the incorrect access control allowing unauthenticated creation and modification of user accounts via the vulnerable endpoint.

AC-14 Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication good match

prevent

Explicitly identifies and authorizes only approved actions without identification or authentication, preventing unauthorized account creation and modification on endpoints like /rest/staffResource/findAllUsersAcrossOrg.

AC-2 Account Management good match

prevent

Mandates procedures for managing account creation, modification, enabling, and disabling, countering the vulnerability's ability to remotely create or alter user accounts including Administrator ones.

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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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

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

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T1098 Account Manipulation Persistence

Adversaries may manipulate accounts to maintain and/or elevate access to victim systems.

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T1136 Create Account Persistence

Adversaries may create an account to maintain access to victim systems.

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Why these techniques?

Unauthenticated remote exploit of public-facing REST endpoint enables account creation/modification (T1136, T1098) for privilege escalation (T1068) and initial access (T1190).

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

NVD Description

Incorrect access control in the component /rest/staffResource/findAllUsersAcrossOrg of Serosoft Solutions Pvt Ltd Academia Student Information System (SIS) EagleR v1.0.118 allows create and modify user accounts, including an Administrator account.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-27583 is an incorrect access control vulnerability (CWE-862) in the /rest/staffResource/findAllUsersAcrossOrg component of Serosoft Solutions Pvt Ltd Academia Student Information System (SIS) EagleR version 1.0.118. Published on 2025-03-03, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N), indicating critical severity due to high confidentiality and integrity impacts with no availability disruption.

Unauthenticated attackers with network access can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows remote creation and modification of user accounts, including Administrator accounts, enabling full compromise of the system's access controls, privilege escalation, and potential persistence or lateral movement within the affected SIS environment.

The primary reference points to a GitHub repository at https://github.com/VvV1per/Vulnerability-Research-CVEs/tree/main/CVE-2024-53637 containing vulnerability research details, though specific patch or mitigation guidance is not detailed in available sources. Security practitioners should verify vendor updates for EagleR v1.0.118 and implement network segmentation or access restrictions on the affected endpoint pending remediation.