CVE-2025-9476
Published: 26 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-9476 is a high-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in Nelzkie15 Human Resource Information System. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 32.0th 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.
This control enforces ownership-based restrictions on portable storage device use, directly implementing access control over media insertion into organizational systems.
Hardware write-protect enforces access control on critical resources (e.g., firmware) independent of software state.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
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.
Associating and retaining security attributes with data directly supports enforcement of access control decisions across storage, processing, and transmission.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in public-facing web application (/Superadmin_Dashboard/process/editemployee_process.php) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to upload executable malicious files (e.g., PHP web shells) to a web-accessible directory, enabling exploitation of public-facing applications and deployment/execution of web shells for RCE.
NVD Description
A vulnerability has been found in SourceCodester Human Resource Information System 1.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /Superadmin_Dashboard/process/editemployee_process.php. Such manipulation of the argument employee_file201 leads to unrestricted upload. The attack may be launched remotely.…
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The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-9476 is an unrestricted file upload vulnerability in SourceCodester Human Resource Information System 1.0, published on 2025-08-26. The flaw affects unknown functionality within the file /Superadmin_Dashboard/process/editemployee_process.php, where manipulation of the employee_file201 argument enables attackers to upload files without restrictions. It is associated with CWE-284 (Improper Access Control) and CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type).
Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability without authentication or user interaction, as indicated by its CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L). Exploitation requires low complexity and can lead to low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially allowing malicious file uploads that compromise the system.
Advisories detailing the issue are available via VulDB (ctiid.321345, id.321345, submit.634757) and GitHub (lrjbsyh/CVE_Hunter issues/5 and issue-3322736605). The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used by attackers.
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