Improper Access ControlWeakness · CWE-284

CVE-2025-50870

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-08-01
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
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
Institute-of-Current-Students 1.0 is vulnerable to Incorrect Access Control in the mydetailsstudent.php endpoint. The myds GET parameter accepts an email address as input and directly returns the corresponding student's personal information without validating the identity or permissions of the requesting user. This allows any authenticated or unauthenticated attacker to enumerate and retrieve sensitive student details by altering the email value in the request URL, leading to information disclosure.

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 · high confidence

Institute-of-Current-Students 1.0 contains an IDOR vulnerability in mydetailsstudent.php where the 'myds' GET parameter accepts any email address and returns the corresponding student's sensitive personal information without verifying the requester's identity or permissions, allowing unauthenticated information disclosure.

MitigationImplement proper authentication and session-based authorization checks to verify the requesting user has permission to view the requested student data before returning any personal information.

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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
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 checks

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  1. Locate the application installation
    Search the web server document root for the Institute-of-Current-Students application files, specifically looking for mydetailsstudent.php
    Affected if The application files exist on the server
  2. Verify the application version
    Check the application version metadata (such as a version file, about page, or software documentation) to confirm it is version 1.0
    Affected if The installed version is 1.0
  3. Confirm the vulnerable script exists
    Verify that mydetailsstudent.php exists in the web-accessible directory structure
    Affected if The file mydetailsstudent.php is present in the application
  4. Test the vulnerable parameter
    Send a GET request to mydetailsstudent.php with an arbitrary email address in the 'myds' parameter (e.g., [email protected]) and observe if sensitive student information is returned without authentication
    Affected if The script returns student personal information for any email address without requiring login or authorization

A user is affected if they are running Institute-of-Current-Students version 1.0 with mydetailsstudent.php accessible and the application returns student data for arbitrary email values without authentication.

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

Implement proper authentication and session-based authorization checks to verify the requesting user has permission to view the requested student data before returning any personal information.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
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  • Implementation4.0 h
  • Testing3.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
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