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🛡️ CVE-2023-25575 — core

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-842 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

api-platform/core's secured properties may be accessible within collections

Impact

Resource properties secured with the security option of the ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiProperty attribute can be disclosed to unauthorized users. The problem affects most serialization formats, including raw JSON, which is enabled by default when installing API Platform. Custom serialization formats may also be impacted. Only collection endpoints are affected by the issue, item endpoints are not. The JSON-LD format is not affected by the issue.

The result of the security rule is only executed for the first item of the collection. The result of the rule is then cached and reused for the next items. This bug can leak data to unauthorized users when the rule depends on the value of a property of the item. This bug can also hide properties that should be displayed to authorized users.

Patches

This issue impacts the 2.7, 3.0 and 3.1 branches. Upgrade to v2.7.10, v3.0.12 or v3.1.3.

Workarounds

Replace the cache_key of the context array of the Serializer inside a custom normalizer that works on objects if the security option of the ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiProperty attribute is used.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-25575 is classified as CWE-842: Placement of User into Incorrect Group. The product or the administrator places a user into an incorrect group.

Affected software

CVE-2023-25575 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • api-platform/core (from 2.6.0 up to 2.7.10)
  • core (from 3.1.0 up to 3.1.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 28 February 2023 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

api-platform/core has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-842: Placement of User into Incorrect Group) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-842
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-02-28
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2023-11-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
api-platform/core 2.6.0 2.7.10
core 3.1.0 3.1.3

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