CVE-2025-14567
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NVD · uneditedA weakness has been identified in haxxorsid Stock-Management-System up to fbbbf213e9c93b87183a3891f77e3cc7095f22b0. This affects an unknown function of the file /api/employees. Executing manipulation can lead to missing authentication. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be exploited. This product takes the approach of rolling releases to provide continious delivery. Therefore, version details for affected and updated releases are not available. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
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 analysisThe mechanism that verifies who a user is can be side-stepped or fooled, letting an attacker act as someone they're not. Everything built on top of that identity then becomes untrustworthy. Fixing it means hardening the full authentication flow, including edge cases, tokens, and secondary paths.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 2018-01-27CVSS 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
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped- Locate the source code for the /api/employees endpoint in the Stock-Management-System codebase
- Review the authentication middleware or check mechanism currently in place (if any) for API routes
- Modify the endpoint handler to verify user authentication before processing requests - implement a check for a valid session token or API key
- Add appropriate authentication logic such as checking for a Bearer token, session cookie, or other valid credential
- Ensure proper error responses (401 Unauthorized) are returned when authentication fails
- If the framework supports it, apply authentication middleware globally or specifically to the /api/employees route
- Test the fix by attempting to access the endpoint without credentials and confirming it returns an authentication error
- Consider deploying behind a reverse proxy or API gateway (e.g., Nginx, Apache, AWS API Gateway) to enforce authentication at the infrastructure level if code modifications are not feasible
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