Path TraversalWeakness · CWE-22

CVE-2025-0614

MEDIUM · 5.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-01-21
Mitigation only
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62/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Input validation vulnerability in Qualifio's Wheel of Fortune. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to modify a single email to contain upper and lower case characters in order to access the application and win prizes as many times as wanted.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · moderate confidence

Input validation vulnerability in Qualifio's Wheel of Fortune allows attackers to bypass email-based prize limits by using mixed-case variations of the same email address. The application incorrectly treats email addresses as case-sensitive for uniqueness checks, enabling multiple prize redemptions through case-manipulated registrations (e.g., [email protected] vs [email protected]).

MitigationNormalize all email inputs to lowercase before storage and comparison; implement case-insensitive uniqueness checks to prevent duplicate prize claims from case-variant email addresses.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

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  1. Confirm Wheel of Fortune module is active
    Locate the Wheel of Fortune configuration in the Qualifio admin panel or check the application module list to verify this feature is enabled for any campaign or promotion.
    Affected if The Wheel of Fortune feature is currently live and accepting user registrations.
  2. Identify the email uniqueness mechanism
    Examine the application source code, database schema, or API endpoints that handle email registration for the Wheel of Fortune. Look for how email addresses are stored and compared (e.g., check if there is a UNIQUE constraint and whether it is case-sensitive).
    Affected if The email field uses a case-sensitive comparison or database constraint for uniqueness.
  3. Test registration with case-variant emails
    In a test environment, attempt to register two accounts using the same email address with different capitalization (e.g., [email protected] and [email protected]) through the Wheel of Fortune promotion.
    Affected if Both registrations succeed and are treated as separate unique users.
  4. Review prize redemption records for case variants
    Query the prize redemption or user registration database table for the Wheel of Fortune campaign. Search for entries where email addresses differ only by case (e.g., compare strings case-insensitively to find duplicates like [email protected] and [email protected]).
    Affected if Multiple prize claims exist from email addresses that are identical when normalized to lowercase.
  5. Check prize limit enforcement logic
    Inspect the application logic that enforces per-email prize limits. Determine whether the limit check performs case-insensitive comparison before blocking subsequent redemptions.
    Affected if The prize limit code performs case-sensitive email matching.

A user is affected if the application permits multiple prize redemptions from email addresses that differ only in capitalization, due to case-sensitive uniqueness checks.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Normalize all email inputs to lowercase before storage and comparison; implement case-insensitive uniqueness checks to prevent duplicate prize claims from case-variant email addresses.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
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