Account privilege escalation via forged administrative request
Published Mar 11, 2025 · Updated Mar 17, 2025
CSRF in OpenMRS 2.4.3 allows remote attackers to promote a low-privileged account through a forged administrative request. The /admin/users/user.form endpoint processes attacker-supplied roleStrings in a POST under the administrator's session without verifying that the administrator intended the change. An administrator must remain signed in and load the attacker's HTML form; the demonstrated request grants the targeted account the System Developer role.
Summary
What happened
CSRF in OpenMRS 2.4.3 allows remote attackers to promote a low-privileged account through a forged administrative request. The /admin/users/user.form endpoint processes attacker-supplied roleStrings in a POST under the administrator's session without verifying that the administrator intended the change. An administrator must remain signed in and load the attacker's HTML form; the demonstrated request grants the targeted account the System Developer role.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-25928
- Published
- Mar 11, 2025
- Updated
- Mar 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-352, T1204
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 11, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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