Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-53373

High

Published: 07 July 2025

Published
07 July 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 8.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.7th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-53373 is a high-severity Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password (CWE-640) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.9 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Natours is a Tour Booking API. The attacker can easily take over any victim account by injecting an attacker-controlled server domain in the Host header when requesting the /forgetpassword endpoint. This vulnerability is fixed with commit 7401793a8d9ed0f0c250c4e0ee2815d685d7a70b.

CWE(s)
CWE-640

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

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.

IA-5 Authenticator Management
addresses: CWE-640

Establishing procedures for lost or compromised authenticators addresses weak password recovery mechanisms.

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