CVE-2025-48868

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48868

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-48868.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-48868

Aliases

GHSA-h6qj-pwmx-wjhw

Published

2025-09-24T13:51:04Z

Modified

2026-10-21T02:53:51Z

Severity

7.2 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

Horilla vulnerable to authenticated RCE via eval() in project_bulk_archive

Details

Horilla is a free and open source Human Resource Management System (HRMS). An authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability exists in Horilla 1.3.0 due to the unsafe use of Python’s eval() function on a user-controlled query parameter in the project_bulk_archive view. This allows privileged users (e.g., administrators) to execute arbitrary system commands on the server. While having Django’s DEBUG=True makes exploitation visibly easier by returning command output in the HTTP response, this is not required. The vulnerability can still be exploited in DEBUG=False mode by using blind payloads such as a reverse shell, leading to full remote code execution. This issue has been patched in version 1.3.1.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-95"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/48xxx/CVE-2025-48868.json",
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "= 1.3.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "= 1.3.0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy":  "StandaloneSingleVersion"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/horilla/horilla-hr

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/horilla/horilla-hr

Events

Introduced

1349e4e5f9cf51edb8508801aa3844eab4edfa8c

Fixed

b0aab62b3a5fe6b7114b5c58db129b3744b4d8cc

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:horilla:horilla:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "1.3"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "1.3"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "b0aab62b3a5fe6b7114b5c58db129b3744b4d8cc"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*

1.3

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-48868.json"