Vulnerability · Published Nov 28, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2025-66385

Critical 9.4

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in Cerebrate from cerebrate-project. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 39% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)9.4Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 60.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

UsersController::edit in Cerebrate before 1.30 allows an authenticated non-privileged user to escalate their privileges (e.g., obtain a higher role such as admin) via the user-edit endpoint by supplying or modifying role_id or organisation_id fields in the edit request.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
cerebrate-project Cerebrate 0 – before 1.30

Weakness: CWE-472 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

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