CVE-2025-2304: Camaleon CMS Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation through a Mass Assignment
A Privilege Escalation through a Mass Assignment exists in Camaleon CMS When a user wishes to change his password, the 'updatedajax' method of the UsersController is called. The vulnerability stems from the use of the dangerous permit! method, which allows all parameters to pass through without any filtering.
Published Mar 14, 2025 · Updated Mar 19, 2025
Affected packages
camaleon_cms
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Affected
- < 2.9.1
- Fixed in
- 2.9.1
- Check
bundle info camaleon_cms
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
A Privilege Escalation through a Mass Assignment exists in Camaleon CMS
When a user wishes to change his password, the 'updated_ajax' method of the UsersController is called. The vulnerability stems from the use of the dangerous permit! method, which allows all parameters to pass through without any filtering.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2304
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2025-09
- https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/pull/1109
- https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/commit/179fd6b1ecf258d3e214aebfa87ac4a322ea4db4
- https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/releases/tag/2.9.1
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/camaleon_cms/CVE-2025-2304.yml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rp28-mvq3-wf8j
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