# CVE-2025-46296: Missing authorization in FileMaker Server

> Low-privilege administrators can access sensitive administrative features like license details and logs in FileMaker Server Admin Console.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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:** 16 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 16 Dec 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-53gg-7r73-4vf2

## What is CVE-2025-46296?

CVE-2025-46296 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Claris FileMaker Server, published on 16 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An authorization bypass vulnerability in FileMaker Server Admin Console allowed administrator roles with minimal privileges to access administrative features such as viewing license details and downloading application logs. This vulnerability has been fully addressed in FileMaker Server 22.0.4.

Weakness: CWE-285 (Improper Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-46296?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Claris Filemaker Server.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-46296?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-46296 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-46296 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-46296 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Claris FileMaker Server

- [CVE-2025-46295](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46295/): Code injection in FileMaker Server (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-86930](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-86930/): Information disclosure in FileMaker Server (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2026-86934](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-86934/): Auth bypass in FileMaker Server (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2026-86926](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-86926/): Memory corruption in FileMaker Server (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2024-27790](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27790/): Missing authorization in FileMaker Server (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-46296 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-46296 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Claris FileMaker Server, published on 16 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-46296 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Claris FileMaker Server. 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-2025-46296/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46296/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-46296
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46296
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-46296

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46296/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.