CVE-2025-53640

Indico vulnerable to user enumeration via API endpoint

Published Jul 14, 2025 CVSS 4.0 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Indico is an event management system that uses Flask-Multipass, a multi-backend authentication system for Flask. Starting in version 2.2 and prior to version 3.3.7, an endpoint used to display details of users listed in certain fields (such as ACLs) could be misused to dump basic user details (such as name, affiliation and email) in bulk. Version 3.3.7 fixes the issue. Owners of instances that allow everyone to create a user account, who wish to truly restrict access to these user details, should consider restricting user search to managers. As a workaround, it is possible to restrict access to the affected endpoints (e.g. in the webserver config), but doing so would break certain form fields which could no longer show the details of the users listed in those fields, so upgrading instead is highly recommended.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-21385 Indico vulnerability allows attackers to bulk dump user details
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-q28v-664f-q6wj Indico vulnerability allows attackers to bulk dump user details
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Cern
Cern indico
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:cern:indico:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Cern
Cern indico
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00072}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Indico is an event management system that uses Flask-Multipass, a multi-backend authentication system for Flask. Starting in version 2.2 and prior to version 3.3.7, an endpoint used to display details of users listed in certain fields (such as ACLs) could be misused to dump basic user details (such as name, affiliation and email) in bulk. Version 3.3.7 fixes the issue. Owners of instances that allow everyone to create a user account, who wish to truly restrict access to these user details, should consider restricting user search to managers. As a workaround, it is possible to restrict access to the affected endpoints (e.g. in the webserver config), but doing so would break certain form fields which could no longer show the details of the users listed in those fields, so upgrading instead is highly recommended.
Title Indico vulnerable to user enumeration via API endpoint
Weaknesses CWE-200
CWE-639
CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N'}

Weaknesses
  • CWE-200

    Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

  • CWE-639

    Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

  • CWE-862

    Missing Authorization

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jul 22, 2025, 3:29 PM
Reserved
Jul 7, 2025, 2:20 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jul 14, 2025, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 9:38 AM