Super-administrator takeover via unchecked password-reset target
Published May 11, 2025 · Updated May 12, 2025
Broken access control in OpenContiNew ContiNew Admin 3.0 through 3.6.0 allows remote authenticated users to reset the super-administrator password. The PATCH handler for /dev-api/system/user/1/password accepts a user ID from the path and changes that account's password without verifying that the caller may target it. An account granted only password-reset permission can replace its own ID with 1, seize the super-administrator account, and control the application.
Summary
What happened
Broken access control in OpenContiNew ContiNew Admin 3.0 through 3.6.0 allows remote authenticated users to reset the super-administrator password. The PATCH handler for /dev-api/system/user/1/password accepts a user ID from the path and changes that account's password without verifying that the caller may target it. An account granted only password-reset permission can replace its own ID with 1, seize the super-administrator account, and control the application.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-4552
- Published
- May 11, 2025
- Updated
- May 12, 2025
- Vendor
- OpenContiNew
- Product
- ContiNew Admin
- Classifications
- CWE-620, CWE-640, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 11, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 12, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=3.0
- Affected versionversion=3.1
- Affected versionversion=3.2
- Affected versionversion=3.3
- Affected versionversion=3.4
- Affected versionversion=3.5
- Affected versionversion=3.6.0
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What is affected?
Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- ContiNew Admin super-administrator password-reset proof of conceptfunctional · demonstrated
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