# CVE-2025-24365: vaultwarden allows escalation of privilege via variable confusion in OrgHeaders trait

> An attacker with admin rights in one organization can escalate privileges to gain owner rights in another organization, potentially accessing sensitive data.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 12 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j4h8-vch3-f797

## What is CVE-2025-24365?

CVE-2025-24365 is a high-severity vulnerability in dani-garcia vaultwarden, published on 27 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

vaultwarden is an unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs. Attacker can obtain owner rights of other organization. Hacker should know the ID of victim organization (in real case the user can be a part of the organization as an unprivileged user) and be the owner/admin of other organization (by default you can create your own organization) in order to attack. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.33.0.

Weakness: CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24365?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dani-Garcia Vaultwarden.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-24365?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24365 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24365 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-24365 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in dani-garcia vaultwarden

- [CVE-2024-55225](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55225/): Vaultwarden vulnerable to user impersonation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-55224](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55224/): Vaultwarden HTML injection vulnerability (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2024-39924](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39924/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2026-43912](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43912/): Vaultwarden: Cross-Org Group Binding Enables Unauthorized Read And Write Access Into Another Organization (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2026-27802](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-27802/): Vaultwarden: Privilege Escalation via Bulk Permission Update to Unauthorized Collections by Manager (high 8.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24365 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24365 is a high-severity vulnerability in dani-garcia vaultwarden, published on 27 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-24365 exists.

Affected product: dani-garcia vaultwarden. 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-2025-24365/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24365/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24365
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24365
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24365

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24365/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.