Frontier Airlines
CVE-2025-62236
MEDIUM
Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessDiscover public email-validation endpoint
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DeliverySubmit bulk candidate email addresses
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ExploitObserve response discrepancy per email
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ExecutionCompile verified valid-account list
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ImpactFeed accounts into phishing/credential stuffing
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Response uniformity
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| Exploitation Conditions | No special conditions beyond the affected endpoint being reachable - the flaw is remote and unauthenticated (PR:N/UI:N) against the public Frontier Airlines email-validation endpoint, which returns a distinguishable response for addresses tied to an existing account. The limiting factors are impact-based rather than access-based: exploitation only discloses whether a given email is registered (low confidentiality, no integrity or availability impact), and its value is contingent on the attacker chaining the harvested addresses into a follow-on attack such as phishing or credential stuffing. Because this is a single hosted web service, exploitation is confined to that one site rather than any customer-deployed software. |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate real-world risk despite the 6.9 CVSS 4.0 base score. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) confirms a remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity attack requiring no user interaction, and the impact is correctly scoped to low confidentiality only (VC:L) with no integrity or availability impact - consistent with CWE-204 (observable response discrepancy / email enumeration). The EPSS score of 0.33% (24th percentile) indicates a low probability of exploitation activity, and there is no CISA KEV listing and no public POC, so this is not under confirmed active exploitation. The signals are internally consistent rather than conflicting: easy to trigger but limited in direct impact. The practical danger is as an enabler - it provides attackers a confirmed list of valid accounts to feed into credential stuffing, phishing, or password-spraying against the same login surface. No SSVC decision data was provided in the input. Bottom line: treat as a reconnaissance/enabler-class information disclosure, not a standalone critical priority. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An unauthenticated attacker scripts automated requests against the public email-validation endpoint, submitting a large list of candidate email addresses and observing which responses indicate an existing account. The attacker builds a verified list of Frontier Airlines customer accounts, then uses it to launch targeted phishing or credential-stuffing attacks. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 08, 2026
Email enumeration in the Frontier Airlines website allows unauthenticated remote attackers to determine whether a given email address is associated with a Frontier account. This information disclosure (CWE-204) has a low confidentiality impact and no public exploit identified at time of analysis; the CVSS 4.0 base score is 6.9, but the real-world risk is low-to-moderate because exploitation is confined to the hosted service and value depends on chaining harvested addresses into phishing or credential stuffing.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch was identified in the provided intelligence; as a hosted web service, remediation is the responsibility of Frontier Airlines. The primary fix is for Frontier to modify the email validation endpoint to return identical responses (status, body, and timing) for both existing and non-existing email addresses, eliminating the observable discrepancy. Additional compensating controls include implementing rate limiting or CAPTCHA on the endpoint to slow enumeration, and monitoring for suspicious request patterns. Trade-offs: rate limiting may impact legitimate users, and CAPTCHA adds friction. For end users, no direct action can patch the issue, but they should be aware that email addresses may be enumerated and should use unique credentials and enable multi-factor authentication where available. Advisory URLs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2025/va-25-296-01.json and https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62236.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability resides in a publicly accessible email validation endpoint on the Frontier Airlines website. According to CWE-204 (Observable Response Discrepancy), the endpoint returns distinguishable responses for email addresses that exist in the system versus those that do not, enabling an attacker to enumerate valid accounts. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:flyfrontier:frontier_airlines:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* confirms the affected product is the Frontier Airlines website (a hosted service, not customer-deployed software). No authentication or user interaction is required (PR:N/UI:N per CVSS), and the attack is remote and low-complexity. The weakness is a classic information disclosure that violates the principle of uniform responses for authentication-related queries.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Remote unauthenticated enumeration with no user interaction (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); only email-existence is leaked, so C:L and I/A:N, scope unchanged.
Primary rating from Vendor (9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725).
CVSS VectorVendor: 9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725
DescriptionCVE.org
The Frontier Airlines website has a publicly available endpoint that validates if an email addresses is associated with an account. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could determine valid email addresses, possibly aiding in further attacks.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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