CVE-2025-59416
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 · uneditedThe Scratch Channel is a news website. If the user makes a fork, they can change the admins and make an article. Since the API uses a POST request, it will make an article. This issue is fixed in v1.2.
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 confidenceThe Scratch Channel news website has a broken access control vulnerability in its fork functionality. An authenticated user can exploit the fork feature to change administrators and create arbitrary articles via a POST API request, indicating insufficient authorization checks on the fork operation that allow privilege escalation.
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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
- Authentication
- X
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- X
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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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Identify if Scratch Channel is installedCheck for the Scratch Channel web application in your environment - look for files, services, or web directories associated with this applicationAffected if Scratch Channel news website is present in the environment
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Determine the installed versionLocate version information for the Scratch Channel installation - check application files, config files, or the running service for a version numberAffected if The installed version is lower than v1.2 (v1.0, v1.1, or any version below v1.2)
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Verify fork functionality existsLook for fork-related features or API endpoints in the application - search for 'fork' in the codebase, API routes, or feature documentationAffected if The fork feature is present and accessible in the application
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Check fork API endpoint authorizationTest the fork API endpoint with an authenticated non-admin user account - send a POST request to the fork endpoint and observe if authorization is properly enforcedAffected if The fork endpoint allows authenticated users to perform admin-level actions without proper authorization checks
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Inspect fork operation for privilege escalationExamine whether the fork functionality allows changing administrators or creating arbitrary articles when invoked by a regular authenticated userAffected if The fork operation permits privilege escalation to admin-level functions
You are affected if the Scratch Channel news website is running a version below v1.2 and the fork functionality is accessible to authenticated users without proper authorization controls.
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 dataUpgrade to v1.2 which contains the fix. If unable to upgrade immediately, review fork-related API endpoints for proper authorization enforcement and consider adding permission validation before allowing admin changes or article creation.
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