# CVE-2025-4500: code-projects Hotel Management System Edit Room edit stack-based overflow

> A local stack-based buffer overflow in the Edit Room function allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 May 2025
- **Updated:** 12 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hxpq-cx68-pw83

## What is CVE-2025-4500?

CVE-2025-4500 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in code-projects Hotel Management System, published on 10 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in code-projects Hotel Management System 1.0. Affected by this issue is the function Edit of the component Edit Room. The manipulation of the argument roomnumber leads to stack-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Weakness: CWE-121 (Stack-based Buffer Overflow), CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write), CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-4500?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Code-Projects Hotel Management System.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-4500?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-4500 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-4500 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-4500 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in code-projects Hotel Management System

- [CVE-2024-12185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12185/): code-projects Hotel Management System Administrator Login Password stack-based overflow (medium 4.8)
- [CVE-2024-12186](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12186/): code-projects Hotel Management System Available Room hotelnew.c stack-based overflow (medium 4.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-4500 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-4500 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in code-projects Hotel Management System, published on 10 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-4500 exists.

Affected product: code-projects Hotel Management System. 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-2025-4500/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4500/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4500
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4500
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-4500

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4500/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.