CVE-2025-22828

MEDIUM

Apache CloudStack >= 4.16.0.0 - Authenticated Exposure of Sensitive Information via Annotations API

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2025-22828. PoCs published by Stolichnayer.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains a detailed writeup for CVE-2025-22828, describing a broken access control vulnerability in Apache CloudStack 4.16.0 and later versions. The vulnerability allows unauthorized users to read or add annotations on resources they are not authorized to access.

Description

CloudStack users can add and read comments (annotations) on resources they are authorised to access.  Due to an access validation issue that affects Apache CloudStack versions from 4.16.0, users who have access, prior access or knowledge of resource UUIDs can list and add comments (annotations) to such resources.  An attacker with a user-account and access or prior knowledge of resource UUIDs may exploit this issue to read contents of the comments (annotations) or add malicious comments (annotations) to such resources.  This may cause potential loss of confidentiality of CloudStack environments and resources if the comments (annotations) contain any privileged information. However, guessing or brute-forcing resource UUIDs are generally hard to impossible and access to listing or adding comments isn't same as access to CloudStack resources, making this issue of very low severity and general low impact. CloudStack admins may also disallow listAnnotations and addAnnotation API access to non-admin roles in their environment as an interim measure.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP 4 stars
by Stolichnayer · poc
https://github.com/Stolichnayer/CVE-2025-22828

This repository contains a detailed writeup for CVE-2025-22828, describing a broken access control vulnerability in Apache CloudStack 4.16.0 and later versions. The vulnerability allows unauthorized users to read or add annotations on resources they are not authorized to access.

Classification
Writeup 100%
Attack Type
Auth Bypass
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Apache CloudStack 4.16.0 and later
Auth required
Prerequisites: knowledge of resource UUIDs
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0191
EPSS Percentile 77.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (1)
apache/cloudstack 4.16.0.0
Published Jan 13, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026