# CVE-2025-12547: LogicalDOC Community Edition Admin Login login.jsp excessive authentication

> Remote attackers can bypass authentication rate limits on the admin login page, potentially enabling brute-force attacks against LogicalDOC Community Edition.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 31 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 31 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4vfm-59fx-r7h5

## What is CVE-2025-12547?

CVE-2025-12547 is a medium-severity vulnerability in LogicalDOC Community Edition, published on 31 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability was identified in LogicalDOC Community Edition up to 9.2.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /login.jsp of the component Admin Login Page. Such manipulation leads to improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts. The attack can be executed remotely. This attack is characterized by high complexity. It is stated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Weakness: CWE-799 (Improper Control of Interaction Frequency), CWE-307 (Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12547?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Logicaldoc Logicaldoc.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-12547?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12547 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-12547 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-12547 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in LogicalDOC Community Edition

- [CVE-2020-9423](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-9423/): File upload in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-13542](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-13542/): Privilege escalation in LogicalDoc (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2017-1000021](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1000021/): XML external entity in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2017-1000022](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1000022/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-54449](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-54449/): Remote Code Execution (RCE) via Arbitrary File Write In Document API (high 8.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-12547 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-12547 is a medium-severity vulnerability in LogicalDOC Community Edition, published on 31 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-12547 exists.

Affected product: LogicalDOC Community Edition. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12547/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12547/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12547
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12547
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-12547

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12547/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.