CVE-2025-22828 Apache CloudStack: Unauthorised access to annotations
Authenticated users can read or add annotations to resources without proper authorization if they know the resource UUIDs.
- 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-2025-22828?
CVE-2025-22828 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Apache Cloudstack, published on 13 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
CloudStack users can add and read comments (annotations) on resources they are authorised to access.
Due to an access validation issue that affects Apache CloudStack versions from 4.16.0, users who have access, prior access or knowledge of resource UUIDs can list and add comments (annotations) to such resources.
An attacker with a user-account and access or prior knowledge of resource UUIDs may exploit this issue to read contents of the comments (annotations) or add malicious comments (annotations) to such resources.
This may cause potential loss of confidentiality of CloudStack environments and resources if the comments (annotations) contain any privileged information. However, guessing or brute-forcing resource UUIDs are generally hard to impossible and access to listing or adding comments isn't same as access to CloudStack resources, making this issue of very low severity and general low impact.
CloudStack admins may also disallow listAnnotations and addAnnotation API access to non-admin roles in their environment as an interim measure.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22828?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Apache Cloudstack.
How do I fix CVE-2025-22828?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22828 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-22828 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22828 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Cloudstack
- CVE-2012-4501 Missing authorization in n/a
- CVE-2024-38346 Apache CloudStack: Unauthenticated cluster service port leads to remote execution
- CVE-2024-39864 Apache CloudStack: Integration API service uses dynamic port when disabled
- CVE-2024-29006 Apache CloudStack: x-forwarded-for HTTP header parsed by default
- CVE-2022-35741 Apache CloudStack SAML Single Sign-On XXE
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7jhp-8mw7-9mrw.