Vulnerability · Published Jul 14, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2025-53640Indico vulnerable to user enumeration via API endpoint
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity information exposure in indico from indico. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 52% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
Indico is an event management system that uses Flask-Multipass, a multi-backend authentication system for Flask. Starting in version 2.2 and prior to version 3.3.7, an endpoint used to display details of users listed in certain fields (such as ACLs) could be misused to dump basic user details (such as name, affiliation and email) in bulk. Version 3.3.7 fixes the issue. Owners of instances that allow everyone to create a user account, who wish to truly restrict access to these user details, should consider restricting user search to managers. As a workaround, it is possible to restrict access to the affected endpoints (e.g. in the webserver config), but doing so would break certain form fields which could no longer show the details of the users listed in those fields, so upgrading instead is highly recommended.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | indico | 3.3.7 | GHSA-q28v-664f-q6wj |
| PyPI | indico | 3.3.7 | PYSEC-2026-1462 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-200, CWE-639, CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N
References
- https://github.com/indico/indico/security/advisories/GHSA-q28v-664f-q6wj x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://docs.getindico.io/en/stable/config/settings/#ALLOW_PUBLIC_USER_SEARCH x_refsource_MISC
- https://docs.getindico.io/en/stable/installation/upgrade x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/indico/indico/releases/tag/v3.3.7 x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve202553640-detect-indico-vulnerability
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve202553640-mitigate-indico-vulnerability