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Improper Access Control

CVE-2025-67259

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

A Broken Access Control vulnerability exists in ClassroomIO v0.1.13 where an authenticated low-privileged "student" user can access unauthorized course-level information by modifying intercepted API requests. Changing a captured POST request to a GET request against the /rest/v1/course PostgREST endpoint results in disclosure of sensitive information including other students details, tutor/admin profiles, and internal course metadata.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published