CVE-2025-8795
Published: 10 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-8795 is a medium-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266) vulnerability in Litmuschaos Litmus. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 27.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
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.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Defining account types, requiring approvals for creation, specifying authorizations, monitoring usage, and reviewing accounts directly prevents improper access control by ensuring only authorized accounts exist and are used.
The control requires explicit definition of separated access authorizations, making incorrect privilege assignments that bundle conflicting duties harder to implement.
Ensures privileges are assigned only as necessary rather than incorrectly over-granted.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
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.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability is an improper access control (CWE-284) in LitmusChaos Litmus /auth/login endpoint, allowing manipulation of projectID post-authentication to gain unauthorized access to other projects, facilitating exploitation for privilege escalation (T1068) as noted in the advisory.
NVD Description
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in LitmusChaos Litmus up to 3.19.0. This affects an unknown part of the file /auth/login. The manipulation of the argument projectID leads to improper access controls. It is possible to initiate…
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the attack 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.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-8795 is a critical vulnerability in LitmusChaos Litmus versions up to 3.19.0, affecting an unknown part of the /auth/login endpoint. The issue stems from manipulation of the projectID argument, resulting in improper access controls as classified under CWE-266 and CWE-284. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) and was published on 2025-08-10.
The vulnerability can be exploited remotely by an attacker with low privileges (PR:L), requiring low attack complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially enabling unauthorized access or modifications within the affected component.
Advisories referenced in VulDB entries (ctiid.319323, id.319323, submit.625984) and a GitHub repository (MaiqueSilva/VulnDB readme05.md) document the issue, noting that the exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be in use. The vendor was contacted early but provided no response, with no patches or specific mitigations detailed.
The public disclosure of the exploit increases the risk of real-world exploitation in unpatched LitmusChaos Litmus deployments up to version 3.19.0.
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