CVE-2025-11049

6.3 MEDIUM

📋 TL;DR

CVE-2025-11049 is an improper authorization vulnerability in Portabilis i-Educar's /unificacao-aluno endpoint that allows unauthorized access to student unification functionality. Attackers can exploit this remotely to perform unauthorized actions. All i-Educar installations up to version 2.10 are affected.

💻 Affected Systems

Products:
  • Portabilis i-Educar
Versions: Up to and including version 2.10
Operating Systems: Any OS running i-Educar
Default Config Vulnerable: ⚠️ Yes
Notes: All installations with the /unificacao-aluno endpoint accessible are vulnerable by default.

📦 What is this software?

⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact

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Worst Case

Attackers could manipulate student records, merge unauthorized student data, or disrupt educational administration systems leading to data integrity issues and privacy violations.

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Likely Case

Unauthorized users accessing student unification functionality to view or modify student records without proper permissions.

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If Mitigated

With proper access controls and network segmentation, impact is limited to unauthorized access attempts that are logged and blocked.

🌐 Internet-Facing: HIGH - Remote exploitation is possible and public exploit exists, making internet-facing instances particularly vulnerable.
🏢 Internal Only: MEDIUM - Internal attackers or compromised accounts could exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges or access unauthorized data.

🎯 Exploit Status

Public PoC: ⚠️ Yes
Weaponized: UNKNOWN
Unauthenticated Exploit: ✅ No
Complexity: LOW

Exploit is publicly available on GitHub and requires some authentication but bypasses authorization checks.

🛠️ Fix & Mitigation

✅ Official Fix

Patch Version: Version 2.11 or later

Vendor Advisory: https://github.com/portabilis/i-educar

Restart Required: No

Instructions:

1. Backup your i-Educar installation and database. 2. Update to i-Educar version 2.11 or later. 3. Verify the /unificacao-aluno endpoint now requires proper authorization.

🔧 Temporary Workarounds

Block Unauthorized Access to Endpoint

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Temporarily restrict access to the vulnerable endpoint using web server configuration or firewall rules.

# Apache: RewriteRule ^/unificacao-aluno - [F]
# Nginx: location /unificacao-aluno { deny all; }

🧯 If You Can't Patch

  • Implement strict network access controls to limit who can reach the i-Educar application.
  • Enable detailed logging and monitoring for unauthorized access attempts to the /unificacao-aluno endpoint.

🔍 How to Verify

Check if Vulnerable:

Attempt to access /unificacao-aluno endpoint with a user account that shouldn't have student unification privileges. If accessible, system is vulnerable.

Check Version:

Check i-Educar version in application settings or via: grep -r 'version' /path/to/i-educar/config/

Verify Fix Applied:

After patching, verify that unauthorized users cannot access the /unificacao-aluno endpoint and proper authorization checks are enforced.

📡 Detection & Monitoring

Log Indicators:

  • Unauthorized access attempts to /unificacao-aluno endpoint
  • Student record modifications from unexpected users

Network Indicators:

  • HTTP requests to /unificacao-aluno from unauthorized IPs or users

SIEM Query:

source="web_server" AND (uri="/unificacao-aluno" OR uri LIKE "%/unificacao-aluno%") AND user NOT IN [authorized_users]

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