# CVE-2025-46576: ZTE GoldenDB Database product has a privilege escalation vulnerability

> Attackers can bypass privilege restrictions to delete content in ZTE GoldenDB Database, requiring immediate attention from database administrators.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **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 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g86j-gmgg-2qh2

## What is CVE-2025-46576?

CVE-2025-46576 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ZTE GoldenDB, published on 27 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

There is a Permission Management and Access Control vulnerability in the GoldenDB database product. Attackers can manipulate requests to bypass privilege restrictions and delete content.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-46576?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Zte Zxcloud Goldendb.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-46576?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-46576 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-46576 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-46576 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in ZTE GoldenDB

- [CVE-2025-46579](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46579/): ZTE GoldenDB Database product has a DDE injection vulnerability (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2025-46580](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46580/): ZTE GoldenDB Database product has a code-related vulnerability (high 7.7)
- [CVE-2025-46577](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46577/): ZTE GoldenDB Database product has an SQL injection vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2025-46578](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46578/): ZTE GoldenDB Database product has SQL injection vulnerabilities in multiple interfaces (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2025-46575](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46575/): ZTE GoldenDB Database product has an information disclosure vulnerability (medium 4.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-46576 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-46576 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ZTE GoldenDB, published on 27 Apr 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-2025-46576 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ZTE GoldenDB. 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-2025-46576/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46576/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-46576
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46576
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-46576

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46576/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.