CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2025-58386 — Terminalfour Terminalfour security vulnerability
In Terminalfour 8 through 8.4.1.1, the userLevel parameter in the user management function is not subject to proper server-side authorization checks. A Power User can intercept and modify this parameter to assign the Administrator role to other existing lower-privileged accounts, or invite a new lower-privileged account and escalate its privileges. While manipulating this request, the Power User can also change the target account's password, effectively taking full control of it.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2025-12-02
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-285
Affected products
- terminalfour / terminalfour
Matched remediation archetype
Authorization bypass, IDOR, and cross-tenant access
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Check exposure
- Map object and action authorization checks across API, UI, batch, import/export, and background-job paths.
- Identify tenant, ownership, role, and policy boundaries for affected resources and administrative operations.
- Use synthetic fixtures to compare intended access matrices without accessing another user's real data.
Remediate safely
- Enforce server-side authorization at each resource access and state transition using the authenticated principal and trusted tenant context.
- Scope data queries by tenant and ownership; treat client-supplied identifiers, roles, and policy claims as untrusted.
- Add deny-by-default policy tests for horizontal and vertical access across every affected transport.
Authoritative sources
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