CVE-2025-70027
Published: 11 March 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-70027 is a high-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Sunbird Sunbirded-Portal. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 14.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) and SC-7 (Boundary Protection).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-70027 is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, corresponding to CWE-918, discovered in Sunbird-Ed SunbirdEd-portal version 1.13.4. Published on 2026-03-11T15:16:21.507, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), indicating high confidentiality impact with no effects on integrity or availability.
Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation allows attackers to obtain sensitive information hosted on internal systems or otherwise inaccessible resources via forged requests from the vulnerable server.
Mitigation details and further technical information are available in the referenced advisories, including https://gist.github.com/zcxlighthouse/6eac455e9094ae313a1c39c25d520b3d, https://github.com/Sunbird-Ed, and https://github.com/Sunbird-Ed/SunbirdEd-portal.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-208563
Vulnerability details
An issue pertaining to CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery was discovered in Sunbird-Ed SunbirdEd-portal v1.13.4. This allows attackers to obtain sensitive information
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
SSRF in public-facing portal directly enables remote exploitation of the application to reach internal resources.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly validates user-supplied inputs used to construct server-side requests, preventing attackers from forging requests to internal or sensitive resources in this SSRF vulnerability.
Monitors and controls communications at system boundaries, blocking unauthorized outbound requests from the vulnerable portal to internal systems.
Enforces information flow policies to restrict the vulnerable server's access to unauthorized internal destinations targeted by SSRF exploits.