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Advisory details: gitlab / packagist/typo3/cms-core/CVE-2025-47940
Advisory ID gitlab/packagist/typo3/cms-core/CVE-2025-47940
Aliases CVE-2025-47940
GHSA-6frx-j292-c844
Summary TYPO3 Allows Privilege Escalation to System Maintainer ### Problem Administrator-level backend users without system maintainer privileges can escalate their privileges and gain system maintainer access. Exploiting this vulnerability requires a valid administrator account. ### Solution Update to TYPO3 versions 10.4.50 ELTS, 11.5.44 ELTS, 12.4.31 LTS, 13.4.12 LTS that fix the problem described. ### Credits Thanks to Alexander Künzl for reporting this issue, and to TYPO3 core & security team member Oliver Hader for fixing it.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-283 Unverified Ownership
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/typo3/cms-core/CVE-2025-47940.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/TYPO3-CMS/core
https://github.com/TYPO3-CMS/core/commit/a659cc8c0ae05c44dd7f01d13629cdd2d0b7219b
https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2025-016
CVE-2025-47940 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47940
GHSA-6frx-j292-c844 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6frx-j292-c844
GHSA-6frx-j292-c844 https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/security/advisories/GHSA-6frx-j292-c844
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/packagist/typo3/cms-core/CVE-2025-47940.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

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none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-05-20T14:35:19Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/47xxx/CVE-2025-47940.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-47940

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]