FreshRSS: Unauthenticated users can view default user's information
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-284.
Summary
FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. Versions 1.26.3 and below expose information about feeds and tags of default admin users, due to lack of access checking in the FreshRSS_Auth::hasAccess() function used by some of the tag/feed related endpoints. FreshRSS controllers usually have a defined firstAction() method with an override to make sure that every action requires access. If one doesn't, then every action has to check for access manually, and certain endpoints use neither the firstAction() method, or do they perform a manual access check. This issue is fixed in version 1.27.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA FreshRSS (FreshRSS) Fixed in 1.27.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-54591
References
More Freshrss vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-34609 FreshRSS: Unauthorized creation of admin user when registration is enabled CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-34363 FreshRSS has Incomplete Session Termination on Logout CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2025-38485 FreshRSS has an IDOR which allows for viewing feeds of any user and leaking tokens CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2025-38032 FreshRSS is vulnerable to directory enumeration by setting path in its theme field CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2025-37337 FreshRSS has Logout CSRF that Leads to DoS via <track src> CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2025-35981 FreshRSS vulnerable to authenticated RCE via path traversal inside include() CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.4
Sources
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