CVE-2025-66291

OrangeHRM is Vulnerable to Improper Authorization Allowing Unauthorized Access to Interview Attachments

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Nov 29, 2025
Updated
Dec 3, 2025
Reserved
Nov 26, 2025

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Description

OrangeHRM is a comprehensive human resource management (HRM) system. From version 5.0 to 5.7, the interview attachment retrieval endpoint in the Recruitment module serves files based solely on an authenticated session and user-supplied identifiers, without verifying whether the requester has permission to access the associated interview record. Because the server does not perform any recruitment-level authorization checks, an ESS-level user with no access to recruitment workflows can directly request interview attachment URLs and receive the corresponding files. This exposes confidential interview documents—including candidate CVs, evaluations, and supporting files—to unauthorized users. The issue arises from relying on predictable object identifiers and session presence rather than validating the user’s association with the relevant recruitment process. This issue has been patched in version 5.8.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.3 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-285 Improper Authorization
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

ProductVersions
orangehrmorangehrm
  • >= 5.0, < 5.8Affected

References

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