# CVE-2025-48986: Missing authorization in Revive Adserver

> A logged-in attacker can modify other users' email addresses to take over their accounts via password reset, affecting Revive Adserver users.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **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:** 20 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 20 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5pqq-jrvh-h276

## What is CVE-2025-48986?

CVE-2025-48986 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver, published on 20 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Authorization bypass in Revive Adserver 5.5.2 and 6.0.1 and earlier versions causes an logged in attacker to change other users' email address and potentialy take over their accounts using the forgot password functionality.

Weakness: CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-48986?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-48986?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-48986 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-48986 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-48986 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver

- [CVE-2016-9124](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9124/): Security feature bypass in Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.3 (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2016-9125](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9125/): Auth bypass in Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.3 (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2017-5830](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5830/): Deserialization in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2016-9470](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9470/): Other in Revive Adserver All versions before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0 (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2026-50741](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-50741/): Code injection in Adserver (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-48986 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-48986 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver, published on 20 Nov 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-2025-48986 exists.

Affected product: Revive-Adserver Revive Adserver. 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-2025-48986/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48986/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48986
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48986
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-48986

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48986/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.