# CVE-2025-48996: Unauthenticated Disclosure of PSU HAX CMS Site Listings via haxPsuUsage API Endpoint

> Unauthenticated attackers can retrieve a full list of hosted websites via the haxPsuUsage API endpoint, aiding targeted attacks.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 3 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fvx2-x7ff-fc56

## What is CVE-2025-48996?

CVE-2025-48996 is a medium-severity vulnerability in haxtheweb issues, published on 2 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

HAX open-apis provides microservice apis for HAX webcomponents repo that are shared infrastructure calls. An unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Penn State University deployment of the HAX content management system via the `haxPsuUsage` API endpoint, related to a flat present in open-apis versions up to and including 10.0.2. This allows any remote unauthenticated user to retrieve a full list of PSU websites hosted on HAX CMS. When chained with other authorization issues (e.g., HAX-3), this could assist in targeted attacks such as unauthorized content modification or deletion. Commit 06c2e1fbb7131a8fe66aa0600f38dcacae6b7ac7 patches the vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-201 (Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-48996?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including @haxtheweb/open-apis.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `@haxtheweb/open-apis` | npm | All versions to 10.0.1 | None |
| `@haxtheweb/open-apis` | npm | All versions to 10.0.1 | None |

## How do I fix CVE-2025-48996?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-48996 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-48996 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48996 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-48996 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-48996 is a medium-severity vulnerability in haxtheweb issues, published on 2 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48996 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- @haxtheweb/open-apis (npm): affected all versions up to 10.0.1; no fix listed
- @haxtheweb/open-apis (npm): affected all versions up to 10.0.1; no fix listed

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-2025-48996/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48996/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48996
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48996
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-48996

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48996/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.