CVE-2025-4046
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 · uneditedA missing authorization vulnerability in Lexmark Cloud Services badge management allows attacker to reassign badges within their organization
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 confidenceThis is an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability in Lexmark Cloud Services where the badge management functionality lacks proper authorization checks. An attacker within the same organization can reassign badges belonging to other users, enabling unauthorized modification of badge allocations.
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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
- High
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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 checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm Lexmark Cloud Services deploymentIdentify whether Lexmark Cloud Services is running in your environment by checking for the service or its administrative consoleAffected if Lexmark Cloud Services is deployed and accessible in your environment
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Verify badge management feature accessLocate the badge management functionality within the Lexmark Cloud Services administrative interface or API endpoints related to badge assignmentAffected if Badge management features are available and accessible to users in your organization
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Test badge reassignment authorizationUsing two separate user accounts within the same organization, attempt to reassign a badge from one user account to another through the badge management interface or APIAffected if A user can reassign badges belonging to other users without receiving an authorization error or permission denial
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Review badge ownership validationInspect API requests and responses when performing badge operations to verify whether the system validates that the requesting user owns or has explicit permission to modify the target badgeAffected if The system does not validate badge ownership before allowing reassignment operations
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Check audit logs for unauthorized badge accessReview Lexmark Cloud Services audit logs for badge reassignment events that show cross-user badge modifications without proper authorization verificationAffected if Logs indicate badge reassignments occurred without documented authorization validation
Your environment is affected if Lexmark Cloud Services is deployed and users within the same organization can reassign badges belonging to other users without proper authorization checks.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
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.
From vendor dataImplement proper authorization checks to ensure users can only reassign badges they own or are explicitly authorized to manage. Validate the requesting user's permissions against the target badge before allowing any reassignment operation.
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