CVE-2025-12270 LearnHouse Student Assignment Submission sub_file resource injection

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

Remote attackers can manipulate resource identifiers in the assignment submission API to access or modify unauthorized files.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2025-12270?

CVE-2025-12270 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in LearnHouse, published on 27 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability was determined in LearnHouse up to 98dfad76aad70711a8113f6c1fdabfccf10509ca. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file /api/v1/assignments/{assignment_id}/tasks/{task_id}/sub_file of the component Student Assignment Submission Handler. This manipulation causes improper control of resource identifiers. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. Continious delivery with rolling releases is used by this product. Therefore, no version details of affected nor updated releases are available. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Weakness: CWE-639, CWE-99

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12270?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Learnhouse Learnhouse.

How do I fix CVE-2025-12270?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12270 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-12270 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-12270 exists.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-ghj3-xmp5-m2wv.

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