# CVE-2025-8962: code-projects Hostel Management System Login Form hostel_manage.exe stack-based overflow

> A local attacker can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in the login form to execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 14 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fp5j-x9w8-9942

## What is CVE-2025-8962?

CVE-2025-8962 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in code-projects Hostel Management System, published on 14 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability was found in code-projects Hostel Management System 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file hostel_manage.exe of the component Login Form. The manipulation of the argument uname leads to stack-based buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Weakness: CWE-121 (Stack-based Buffer Overflow), CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-8962?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Fabian Hostel Management System.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-8962?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-8962 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-8962 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-8962 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in code-projects Hostel Management System

- [CVE-2025-6293](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6293/): code-projects Hostel Management System contact_manager.php sql injection (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2025-6294](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6294/): code-projects Hostel Management System contact.php sql injection (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2025-6295](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6295/): code-projects Hostel Management System allocated_rooms.php sql injection (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2025-6296](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6296/): code-projects Hostel Management System empty_rooms.php sql injection (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2025-6159](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6159/): code-projects Hostel Management System allocate_room.php sql injection (medium 6.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-8962 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-8962 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in code-projects Hostel Management System, published on 14 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-8962 exists.

Affected product: code-projects Hostel Management System. 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-2025-8962/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8962/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8962
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8962
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-8962

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.