CVE-2025-7044 (GCVE-0-2025-7044)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-03 15:45 – Updated: 2025-12-03 16:42
VLAI
Title
Privilege Escalation in MAAS via Websocket Request Manipulation
Summary
An Improper Input Validation vulnerability exists in the user websocket handler of MAAS. An authenticated, unprivileged attacker can intercept a user.update websocket request and inject the is_superuser property set to true. The server improperly validates this input, allowing the attacker to self-promote to an administrator role. This results in full administrative control over the MAAS deployment.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-03 16:41 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Ubuntu MAAS Affected: 3.3.0 , < 3.3.11 (semver)
Affected: 3.4.0 , < 3.4.9 (semver)
Affected: 3.5.0 , < 3.5.9 (semver)
Affected: 3.6.0 , < 3.6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 3.7.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 3.8.0 (semver)
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Credits
Jacopo Rota
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