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TI-2025-18940 Aliases CVE-2025-25286GHSA-mm6v-68qp-f9fw

Crayfish allows Remote Code Execution via Homarus Authorization header

Priority MEDIUM 51CWE-150Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Crayfish is a collection of Islandora 8 microservices, one of which, Homarus, provides FFmpeg as a microservice. Prior to Crayfish version 4.1.0, remote code execution may be possible in web-accessible installations of Homarus in certain configurations. The issue has been patched in `islandora/crayfish:4.1.0`. Some workarounds are available. The exploit requires making a request against the Homarus's `/convert` endpoint; therefore, the ability to exploit is much reduced if the microservice is not directly accessible from the Internet, so: Prevent general access from the Internet from hitting Homarus. Alternatively or additionally, configure auth in Crayfish to be more strongly required, such that requests with `Authorization` headers that do not validate are rejected before the problematic CLI interpolation occurs.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01024 63rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Crayfish (Islandora): 4.1.0islandora/crayfish (Packagist): 4.1.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
IslandoraCrayfishbefore 4.1.04.1.0Patch availableCNA
—islandora/crayfish (Packagist)before 4.1.04.1.0Patch availableGHSA-mm6v-68qp-f9fw
  • Crayfish VendorIslandora Affected before 4.1.0 Fixed in 4.1.0 Patch available CNA
  • islandora/crayfish (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 4.1.0 Fixed in 4.1.0 Patch available GHSA-mm6v-68qp-f9fw

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Crayfish (Islandora) Fixed in 4.1.0
  • Fix · GHSA-mm6v-68qp-f9fw islandora/crayfish (Packagist) Fixed in 4.1.0 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-25286
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mm6v-68qp-f9fw

References

  • TI-2026-02778 Islandora - Moderately critical - Arbitrary file upload, Cross-site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-016 CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4

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