CVE-2025-25282 Potential Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability in ragflow

High 8.1 Published 21 Feb 2025 Updated 24 Feb 2025

Authenticated users can access other tenants' data and modify user accounts due to missing authorization checks in RAGFlow.

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-2025-25282?

CVE-2025-25282 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in infiniflow ragflow, published on 21 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

RAGFlow is an open-source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine based on deep document understanding. An authenticated user can exploit the Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability that may lead to unauthorized cross-tenant access (list tenant user accounts, add user account into other tenant). Unauthorized cross-tenant access: list user from other tenant (e.g., via GET /<tenant_id>/user/list), add user account to other tenant (POST /<tenant_id>/user). This issue has not yet been patched. Users are advised to reach out to the project maintainers to coordinate a fix.

Weakness: CWE-639

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-25282?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Infiniflow Ragflow.

How do I fix CVE-2025-25282?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-25282 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-2025-25282 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-25282 exists.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-wc5v-g79p-7hch.