{"id":"CVE-2025-62523","aliases":["EUVD-2025-36363","GHSA-pgfw-f4mp-5445"],"status":"published","title":"PILOS Misconfigured the Access-Control-Allow-Origin Header","description":"PILOS (Platform for Interactive Live-Online Seminars) is a frontend for BigBlueButton. PILOS before 4.8.0 includes a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) misconfiguration in its middleware: it reflects the Origin request header back in the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header without proper validation or a whitelist, while Access-Control-Allow-Credentials is set to true. This behavior could allow a malicious website on a different origin to send requests (including credentials) to the PILOS API. This may enable exfiltration or actions using the victim’s credentials if the server accepts those cross-origin requests as authenticated. Laravel’s session handling applies additional origin checks such that cross-origin requests are not authenticated by default. Because of these session-origin protections, and in the absence of any other unknown vulnerabilities that would bypass Laravel’s origin/session checks, this reflected-Origin CORS misconfiguration is not believed to be exploitable in typical PILOS deployments. This vulnerability has been patched in PILOS in v4.8.0","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00204,"percentile":0.10443,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-942"],"published":"2025-10-27T20:10:51Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:29Z","products":[{"vendor":"thm","product":"pilos"},{"vendor":"thm-health","product":"pilos"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/THM-Health/PILOS/security/advisories/GHSA-pgfw-f4mp-5445","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Mitigation","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/THM-Health/PILOS/commit/14655bc4f8128ffd2b3c25004b01d9a802808da8","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/62xxx/CVE-2025-62523.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62523","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-62523","title":"PILOS Misconfigured the Access-Control-Allow-Origin Header","description":"PILOS (Platform for Interactive Live-Online Seminars) is a frontend for BigBlueButton. 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This may enable exfiltration or actions using the victim’s credentials if the server accepts those cross-origin requests as authenticated. Laravel’s session handling applies additional origin checks such that cross-origin requests are not authenticated by default. Because of these session-origin protections, and in the absence of any other unknown vulnerabilities that would bypass Laravel’s origin/session checks, this reflected-Origin CORS misconfiguration is not believed to be exploitable in typical PILOS deployments. This vulnerability has been patched in PILOS in v4.8.0","status":"published","published":"2025-10-27T20:10:51Z","modified":"2025-10-27T20:38:52Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:49:37.020896Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-62523","description":"PILOS (Platform for Interactive Live-Online Seminars) is a frontend for BigBlueButton. 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