# CVE-2025-65096: RomM Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) Allows Unauthorized Access to Private Collections

> Attackers can access private collections belonging to other users by directly accessing their IDs via the API without proper ownership verification.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **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:** 3 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 3 Dec 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5ghc-8wr3-788c

## What is CVE-2025-65096?

CVE-2025-65096 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in rommapp romm, published on 3 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

RomM (ROM Manager) allows users to scan, enrich, browse and play their game collections with a clean and responsive interface. Prior to 4.4.1 and 4.4.1-beta.2, users can read private collections / smart collections belonging to other users by directly accessing their IDs via API. No ownership verification or checking if the collection is public/private before returning collection data. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.4.1 and 4.4.1-beta.2.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key), CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-65096?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Romm.app Romm.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-65096?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-65096 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-65096 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-65096 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in rommapp romm

- [CVE-2025-65027](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-65027/): RomM Chained XSS and CSRF Vulnerabilities Enable Admin Account Takeover (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2025-65097](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-65097/): Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) Allows Unauthorized Deletion of User Collections (high 7.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-65096 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-65096 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in rommapp romm, published on 3 Dec 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-2025-65096 exists.

Affected product: rommapp romm. 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-2025-65096/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-65096/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-65096
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-65096
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-65096

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-65096/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.