CVE-2025-45479
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 · uneditedInsufficient security mechanisms for created containers in educoder challenges v1.0 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via injecting crafted content into a container.
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 confidenceInsufficient security mechanisms in educoder challenges v1.0 allow attackers to inject crafted content into containers created for educational challenges, enabling arbitrary code execution. This is a container isolation/containment bypass vulnerability where the platform fails to properly secure the containers used to run user code in a sandboxed environment.
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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= 1.0CVSS 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
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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 Educoder Challenges platform is in useIdentify if your environment hosts or runs the Educoder Challenges educational platform. Look for application identifiers, service names, or documentation referencing 'educoder' or 'challenges' platform.Affected if Your system runs the Educoder Challenges platform
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Verify installed version is 1.0Check the installed Educoder Challenges package, binary, or service for its version number. Compare against version 1.0 specifically, as only this exact version is listed as affected.Affected if The installed version is exactly 1.0
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Inspect container creation mechanismExamine the container instantiation logic, APIs, or scripts used by the platform to create containers for challenge environments. Look for how user-provided content is passed to container creation.Affected if Container creation directly incorporates user input without apparent sanitization
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Check for input validation on container contentReview any code, configuration, or filters that handle content injected into containers. Verify if there are validation routines for container images, volumes, environment variables, or startup commands.Affected if No input validation or sanitization is implemented for container content
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Review container isolation settingsExamine container runtime configuration, privilege settings, namespace isolation, and capability flags used by the platform when spawning containers.Affected if Containers run with excessive privileges or lack proper isolation boundaries
You are affected if your environment runs Educoder Challenges version 1.0 and the platform allows unchecked content injection into container creation processes without validation or proper isolation.
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 container isolation by using non-privileged containers, read-only filesystems, restricted capabilities, network segmentation, and validating/sanitizing all user input before it reaches container execution environments.
- Consultation8.0 h
- Implementation32.0 h
- Testing16.0 h
- Review / QA8.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-45479 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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