# CVE-2025-57396: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Attackers can escalate privileges to admin by modifying user profile API fields, affecting Tandoor Recipes users.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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:** 19 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 19 Sep 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x42r-cvgx-rqgp

## What is CVE-2025-57396?

CVE-2025-57396 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 19 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Tandoor Recipes 2.0.0-alpha-1, fixed in 2.0.0-alpha-2, is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is due to the rework of the API, which resulted in the User Profile API Endpoint containing two boolean values indicating whether a user is staff or administrative. Consequently, any user can escalate their privileges to the highest level.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-57396?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Tandoor Recipes.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-57396?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-57396 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-57396 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-57396 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2025-23211](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23211/): Tandoor Recipes - SSTI - Remote Code Execution (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-33152](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33152/): Tandoor Recipes Vulnerable to Unrestricted Brute-Force via BasicAuthentication (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2025-23213](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23213/): Tandoor Recipes - Stored XSS through Unrestricted File Upload (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2026-35488](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35488/): Tandoor Recipes — CustomIsShared permits DELETE/PUT on RecipeBook by shared (read-only) users (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2026-35045](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35045/): Tandoor Recipes Affected by Private Recipe Exposure and Unauthorized Modification (high 8.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-57396 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-57396 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 19 Sep 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-2025-57396 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. 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-2025-57396/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-57396/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-57396
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57396
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-57396

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-57396/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.