Raw vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/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:XSummary
CVE-2025-68456 is a high-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Data Queries (CWE-202) vulnerability in Craftcms Craft Cms. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Network Denial of Service (T1498); ranked at the 40th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-10 (Concurrent Session Control) and AC-23 (Data Mining Protection) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-68456 is a high-severity vulnerability in Craft CMS, a platform for creating digital experiences. It affects versions 5.0.0-RC1 through 5.8.20 and 3.0.0 through 4.16.16, where unauthenticated users can trigger database backup operations via specific admin actions. This flaw, linked to CWE-202 (Observable Discrepancy) and CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling), carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H), highlighting risks of both confidentiality and availability impacts.
Any unauthenticated attacker with network access can exploit the issue with low complexity and no user interaction. By invoking the vulnerable admin actions, they can initiate database backups, potentially causing resource exhaustion through repeated operations that consume significant CPU, memory, or disk space, or enabling information disclosure if backups expose sensitive data.
Mitigation requires updating to patched versions 5.8.21 or 4.16.17, as detailed in the Craft CMS changelog and security advisory GHSA-v64r-7wg9-23pr. Craft 3 users should upgrade to the latest Craft 4 and 5 releases, which incorporate the fixes. The specific patch is implemented in GitHub commit f83d4e0c6b906743206b4747db4abf8164b8da39.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-0825
Vulnerability Data
Craft is a platform for creating digital experiences. In versions 5.0.0-RC1 through 5.8.20 and 3.0.0 through 4.16.16, unauthenticated users can trigger database backup operations via specific admin actions, potentially leading to resource exhaustion or information disclosure. Users should update to…
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the patched versions (5.8.21 and 4.16.17) to mitigate the issue. Craft 3 users should update to the latest Craft 4 and 5 releases, which include the fixes.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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- 5 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
V15.4.4
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly enforces a hard limit on concurrent sessions, structurally preventing unbounded resource allocation.
AC-23 directly requires mechanisms to protect against unauthorized data mining and inference from statistical queries that would expose sensitive information.
Requires explicit allocation of resources by priority or quota, directly stopping unlimited allocation.
Imposes a limit on consecutive invalid attempts, preventing one specific class of unbounded resource consumption.
Reduces impact of resulting DoS events without preventing the underlying lack of allocation limits.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Least-privilege query permissions directly limit the data an attacker can request or infer.
Monitoring capacity and taking action to maintain availability directly reduces unchecked resource allocation.
Behavior analytics on query activity can detect inference attempts but does not prevent exposure at query time.
Protecting data-in-use reduces what remains available for inference via queries.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Access control limits who can run queries that could expose sensitive information via inference.
Granular access rights reduce the ability of users to craft inference queries.
Data masking prevents inference by obscuring sensitive values returned in query results.
Baseline comparison of CPU, memory and bandwidth usage helps surface uncontrolled resource allocations before they cause service degradation.
Information access restriction directly limits query scope that could lead to inference.
Capacity projections and elasticity measures ensure that allocation requests are bounded and can be throttled, reducing the window in which an attacker can force unbounded resource reservations.
Hardening callouts derived
Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).
Oracle Linux 8 (2 rules)
- V-248552 OL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic terminate after becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-770
- V-248553 OL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic are terminated after 10 minutes of becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-770
Oracle Linux 9 (2 rules)
- V-271710 OL 9 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic are terminated after 10 minutes of becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-770
- V-271709 OL 9 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic terminate after becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-770
RHEL 8 (1 rule)
- V-230244 RHEL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic terminate after becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-770