CVE-2025-27601
Published: 11 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-27601 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization (CWE-285) vulnerability in Umbraco Umbraco Cms. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 37.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-7794
Vulnerability details
Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system. An improper API access control issue has been identified Umbraco's API management package prior to versions 15.2.3 and 14.3.3, allowing low-privilege, authenticated users to create and update data type…
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information that should be restricted to users with access to the settings section. The issue is patched in versions 15.2.3 and 14.3.3. No known workarounds are available.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The improper API access control allows low-privilege authenticated users to create and update data types restricted to settings section access, enabling exploitation for privilege escalation.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Documented procedures facilitate correct implementation and ongoing management of authorization decisions.
Periodic reviews identify and correct flaws in authorization decisions or enforcement.
Establishing permitted attributes and values, plus auditing changes, ensures authorization decisions are based on correctly managed policy data.
Explicitly mandates authorizing remote access types before permitting connections, directly mitigating improper authorization.
The control explicitly requires authorization of each wireless access type prior to permitting connections.
Mandating explicit authorization of mobile device connections reduces the risk of improper authorization decisions for system access.
Specifying access authorizations for each account and requiring approvals for account requests enforces proper authorization decisions.
Requires explicit authorization for individuals to use external systems to access or handle organization-controlled information.