CVE-2025-4552
Published: 12 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-4552 is a medium-severity Unverified Password Change (CWE-620) vulnerability in Continew Continew Admin. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 37.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-14263
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been found in ContiNew Admin up to 3.6.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /dev-api/system/user/1/password. The manipulation leads to unverified password change. The attack can be launched remotely.…
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The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability enables exploitation of a remote web API endpoint (/dev-api/system/user/1/password) for privilege escalation (T1068) by allowing users with password reset permissions to unverifiedly change the super administrator password, facilitating account manipulation (T1098).
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.
Establishing procedures for lost or compromised authenticators addresses weak password recovery mechanisms.