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CVE-2025-48996 Detail

Description

HAX open-apis provides microservice apis for HAX webcomponents repo that are shared infrastructure calls. An unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Penn State University deployment of the HAX content management system via the `haxPsuUsage` API endpoint, related to a flat present in open-apis versions up to and including 10.0.2. This allows any remote unauthenticated user to retrieve a full list of PSU websites hosted on HAX CMS. When chained with other authorization issues (e.g., HAX-3), this could assist in targeted attacks such as unauthorized content modification or deletion. Commit 06c2e1fbb7131a8fe66aa0600f38dcacae6b7ac7 patches the vulnerability.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/haxtheweb/issues/security/advisories/GHSA-fvx2-x7ff-fc56 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/haxtheweb/open-apis/commit/06c2e1fbb7131a8fe66aa0600f38dcacae6b7ac7 GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-201 Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-48996
NVD Published Date:
06/02/2025
NVD Last Modified:
06/04/2025
Source:
GitHub, Inc.