CVE-2025-54596 Privilege escalation in Abnormal Security
Medium 4.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-54596 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-54596 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Abnormal Security, published on 25 Jul 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-2025-54596 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Abnormal Security. 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-2025-54596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54596/index.md)
Attackers can downgrade privileges of other user accounts in Abnormal Security, potentially disrupting access controls and operations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-54596?
CVE-2025-54596 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Abnormal Security, published on 25 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Abnormal Security /v1.0/rbac/users_v2/{USER_ID}/ before 2025-02-19 allows downgrading the privileges of other user accounts.
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54596?
How do I fix CVE-2025-54596?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54596 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-54596 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54596 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m9pp-ghmm-cm9m.