CVE-2025-57605
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 · uneditedLack of server-side authorisation on department admin assignment APIs in AiKaan IoT Platform allows authenticated users to elevate their privileges by assigning themselves as admins of other departments. This results in unauthorized privilege escalation across the department
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 confidenceThe AiKaan IoT Platform contains a broken access control vulnerability in its department admin assignment APIs. The server-side authorization checks are missing or insufficient, allowing any authenticated user to call these APIs and assign themselves or other users as administrators of departments they should not have access to manage.
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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
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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 AiKaan IoT Platform installationLocate and identify the AiKaan IoT Platform installation in your environment. Check for typical installation directories or use platform inventory tools to enumerate installed IoT management software.Affected if The system does not have AiKaan IoT Platform installed - not affected.
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Identify department admin assignment API endpointsReview API documentation, network traffic logs, or perform endpoint discovery on the AiKaan server. Look for APIs related to department user management, admin role assignment, or user-department mapping.Affected if No department admin assignment APIs exist in the deployment - not affected.
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Verify authentication is required for the affected APIsAttempt unauthenticated requests to the department admin assignment endpoints. Check if the API rejects requests without valid session tokens or credentials.Affected if The APIs accept unauthenticated requests - this indicates a different or additional vulnerability, but the specific CVE requires authenticated access.
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Test authorization boundaries on admin assignment APIsLog in as a non-administrative or low-privilege user. Attempt to call the department admin assignment APIs to assign admin rights to yourself or other users for departments outside your assigned scope. Observe if the API accepts or rejects these requests.Affected if The API allows a user to assign admin roles for departments they are not authorized to manage - VULNERABLE to CVE-2025-57605.
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Review server-side authorization logsExamine application and API server logs for department admin assignment operations. Check if the system enforces server-side authorization checks by verifying the requesting user's permissions against the target department before processing admin assignment requests.Affected if Logs show admin assignments succeed without server-side permission validation for the target department - VULNERABLE.
A user is affected if they have deployed the AiKaan IoT Platform and the department admin assignment APIs allow any authenticated user to modify admin roles for departments outside their authorized scope without proper server-side authorization validation.
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 server-side authorization checks on all department admin assignment APIs to verify the requesting user has appropriate permissions to modify admin assignments for the target department.
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