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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-48996

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.3

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: haxtheweb

Product: issues

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.52% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-08 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48996
https://github.com/haxtheweb/issues/security/advisories/GHSA-fvx2-x7ff-fc56
https://github.com/haxtheweb/open-apis/commit/06c2e1fbb7131a8fe66aa0600f38dcacae6b7ac7

Timeline