Privilege escalation via self-edit role validation bypass
Published Nov 28, 2025 · Updated Nov 28, 2025
Privilege escalation in Cerebrate before 1.30 allows remote authenticated users to grant themselves an administrator role. UsersController::edit exempted self-edits from its allowed-role check, so a crafted user-edit request could persist an otherwise forbidden role_id. Any authenticated non-privileged account able to edit its own profile can obtain higher privileges, including administrative access.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Cerebrate before 1.30 allows remote authenticated users to grant themselves an administrator role. UsersController::edit exempted self-edits from its allowed-role check, so a crafted user-edit request could persist an otherwise forbidden role_id. Any authenticated non-privileged account able to edit its own profile can obtain higher privileges, including administrative access.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-66385
- Published
- Nov 28, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Cerebrate Project
- Product
- Cerebrate
- Classifications
- CWE-472, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Nov 28, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.30
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