Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-70030

Sunbirded-Portal 1.13.4

Published
09 March 2026
Modified
02 June 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0034 27th percentile
Risk Priority 57 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-70030 is a high-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Sunbird Sunbirded-Portal. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499); ranked at the 27th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-15 (Development Process, Standards, and Tools) — 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-2025-70030 is a vulnerability corresponding to CWE-1333 (Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity, version 4.19) in Sunbird-Ed SunbirdEd-portal version 1.13.4. Published on 2026-03-09, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), indicating a high-severity issue primarily impacting availability.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation triggers inefficient regular expression processing, leading to a denial-of-service condition through resource exhaustion, without compromising confidentiality or integrity.

Mitigation details are available in referenced resources, including a GitHub Gist at https://gist.github.com/zcxlighthouse/d80812b9d90683c0ac65db656ae3cfb0 and the project's repositories at https://github.com/Sunbird-Ed and https://github.com/Sunbird-Ed/SunbirdEd-portal. Security practitioners should consult these for patch information or workarounds specific to SunbirdEd-portal v1.13.4.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An issue pertaining to CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (4.19) was discovered in Sunbird-Ed SunbirdEd-portal v1.13.4.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service Impact
Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users.
T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood Impact
Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-70029Same product: Sunbird Sunbirded-Portal
CVE-2025-70031Same product: Sunbird Sunbirded-Portal
CVE-2025-70032Same product: Sunbird Sunbirded-Portal
CVE-2025-70028Same product: Sunbird Sunbirded-Portal
CVE-2025-70033Same product: Sunbird Sunbirded-Portal
CVE-2025-70027Same product: Sunbird Sunbirded-Portal
CVE-2023-6688Shared CWE-1333
CVE-2023-45813Shared CWE-1333
CVE-2023-25167Shared CWE-1333
CVE-2025-70034Shared CWE-1333

Affected Assets

sunbird
sunbirded-portal
1.13.4

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Developer testing and evaluation can discover inefficient regex patterns via performance or static analysis.

Development standards and tools can require safe regex construction and forbid known exponential patterns.

Denial-of-service protections limit resource exhaustion caused by expensive regex evaluation.

Input validation can constrain data that would otherwise trigger worst-case regex complexity.

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.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly prevent inefficient regex via reviews, static analysis, and safe libraries.

ID.RA-01 partial match
prevents

Vulnerability identification processes can discover ReDoS issues in existing code but do not stop their introduction.

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.

finds

Security testing can detect and reject regex patterns with exponential worst-case complexity.

prevents

Secure development lifecycle mandates review of algorithmic efficiency, directly addressing ReDoS-prone regex.

prevents

Application security requirements can specify input-validation rules that limit regex complexity.

prevents

Secure architecture principles encourage avoidance of computationally expensive constructs such as catastrophic backtracking.

prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly prohibit or limit the use of inefficient regular expressions.

References