Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privileged LMS user
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ExploitRequest unpublished certificate by identifier
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ExecutionBypass missing owner/staff authorization check
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ImpactRead other users' certificate details
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated low-privileged account on the Frappe LMS instance (CVSS PR:L); the attacker then retrieves unpublished certificate records by their identifier that should be restricted to the certificate owner and authorized staff. Limiting factors: authentication is required (not anonymous), impact is read-only disclosure of certificate details with no data modification or privilege escalation, and access to published certificates by identifier is intentional and unaffected. All versions prior to 2.54.2 are affected; upgrading to 2.54.2 is the only remediation (vendor states no workaround). |
| Impact | This is a confidentiality-only broken-access-control flaw (CWE-862, Missing Authorization) in Frappe LMS, and the signals consistently point to a moderate, non-urgent issue rather than a top priority. The supplied CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N) scores 5.3 (Medium): network-reachable and low-complexity, but requiring PR:L - i.e. an authenticated, low-privileged account - and yielding only low confidentiality impact with no integrity or availability impact (the advisory and description both confirm no data modification and no privilege escalation). The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', consistent with a medium-severity, address-in-normal-cycle item. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no proof-of-concept exploit were provided; the only references are the GHSA advisory, the fix commit, and the release tag. There is no conflict between the vector and the description: both agree exploitation requires an authenticated user who then retrieves unpublished certificate records they do not own. Net assessment: a real but bounded data-exposure issue - worth patching on a normal schedule, not an emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated low-privileged user of a Frappe LMS instance requests certificate records by their identifier and receives unpublished certificates belonging to other users, exposing certificate details that should be restricted to the owner and authorized staff. No public exploit code was identified; the fix commit shows the root cause was a missing 'and doc.published' check on read/print permission. Exploitation yields only read access to certificate data - no modification or privilege gain. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 30, 2026
Frappe Learning Management System (LMS) prior to 2.54.2 lets authenticated low-privileged users retrieve and view certificate records that were never published, exposing certificate details belonging to other users instead of restricting them to the certificate owner and authorized staff. The flaw is a missing-authorization problem (CWE-862) in the LMS Certificate permission handling, scored 5.3 with a confidentiality-only impact - no data modification or privilege gain is possible, and lookups of published certificates (the mechanism third parties use for verification) continue to work as intended. No public exploit code or CISA KEV entry is associated with this issue at time of analysis, which carries a this_month priority label.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Frappe LMS to version 2.54.2 or later - this is the vendor's stated and only complete remediation, and the advisory explicitly lists no workaround. The patch is the small controller change in commit e0a898825ebf924f376ff8985c4248fc48139cf5, which adds a published check before read/print permissions are granted on the LMS Certificate DocType; verify the deployed build reports 2.54.2+ after upgrading and that the site's assets/restart are refreshed so the patched Python controller is loaded. For instances that cannot be upgraded immediately, there is no vendor-supported compensating control: the exposure is reachable by any authenticated account, so the practical interim measures are to audit and publish or delete stale unpublished LMS Certificate records (reducing what can be disclosed) and to restrict which accounts can log in to the LMS (limiting who can attempt the lookup) - both reduce exposure but do not close the missing authorization check, and neither is offered by the vendor as a fix. Advisory and release references: https://github.com/frappe/lms/security/advisories/GHSA-xjj9-h64v-254g and https://github.com/frappe/lms/tree/v2.54.2.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Frappe LMS is built on the Frappe framework, where access control is expressed through DocType permissions; the affected component is the LMS Certificate DocType controller (lms/lms/doctype/lms_certificate/lms_certificate.py). Per the upstream commit, the controller's on_update handler granted read and print permissions in a branch guarded only by permission type, meaning the grant applied whether or not the certificate record had been published. The fix narrows that condition to "ptype in [\"read\", \"print\"] and doc.published", so permission is only extended once the record is actually published. The CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) classification matches this: the authorization decision existed but did not account for publication state, allowing a user who is not the certificate owner and not authorized staff to fetch unpublished certificate documents by identifier. Because the CVSS/changelog explicitly scopes impact to confidentiality, the practical consequence is disclosure of certificate metadata/content only - integrity and availability of the application are untouched, and there is no path to elevation of privilege described in the available sources.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Authenticated low-privileged user (PR:L) exploits a network-reachable missing-authorization check with no user interaction; only low confidentiality impact, no integrity or availability impact.
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1DescriptionCVE.org
Frappe Learning Management System (LMS) is a learning system that helps users structure their content. Prior to version 2.54.2, unpublished certificate records can be retrieved and viewed by users who should not have access, rather than being limited to the certificate owner and authorized staff. This can expose certificate details belonging to other users. Access to published certificates by their identifier is intentional for third-party verification and is not affected. The issue does not allow modifying data or gaining elevated privileges. This issue is fixed in version 2.54.2.
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