CVE-2025-5162
Published: 26 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-5162 is a medium-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in H3C Seccenter Smp-1114P02. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 48.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-16253
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in H3C SecCenter SMP-E1114P02 up to 20250513. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /safeEvent/importFile/. The manipulation of the argument logGeneralFile/logGeneralFile_2 leads to unrestricted upload. The…
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attack may be launched remotely. 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.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Unrestricted file upload in public-facing web endpoint (/safeEvent/importFile/) enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190) for initial access/RCE, ingress tool transfer (T1105) by uploading arbitrary files/malware, and tool staging (T1608.002) as assigned in advisory; facilitates gaining server privileges.
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.
This control enforces ownership-based restrictions on portable storage device use, directly implementing access control over media insertion into organizational systems.
Hardware write-protect enforces access control on critical resources (e.g., firmware) independent of software state.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Explicitly identifying and documenting actions permitted without identification or authentication enforces proper access control boundaries by defining justified exceptions.
By automatically labeling outputs with security attributes, the control supports attribute-based enforcement and reduces exploitability of improper access control weaknesses.
Associating and retaining security attributes with data directly supports enforcement of access control decisions across storage, processing, and transmission.