owen2345/camaleon-cms · Security
Camaleon CMS Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation through a Mass Assignment
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-rp28-mvq3-wf8j
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-2304
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 9.4 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Description
A Privilege Escalation through a Mass Assignment exists in Camaleon CMS
When a user wishes to change his password, the 'updated_ajax' method of the UsersController is called. The vulnerability stems from the use of the dangerous permit! method, which allows all parameters to pass through without any filtering.
CWEs
- CWE-915 · Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2304 ↗
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2025-09 ↗
- https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/pull/1109 ↗
- https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/commit/179fd6b1ecf258d3e214aebfa87ac4a322ea4db4 ↗
- https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/releases/tag/2.9.1 ↗
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/camaleon_cms/CVE-2025-2304.yml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rp28-mvq3-wf8j ↗