CVE-2025-11554
📋 TL;DR
This vulnerability in Portabilis i-Educar allows attackers to escalate privileges through insecure inherited permissions in the User Type Handler component. Attackers can remotely exploit this to gain unauthorized access to sensitive functions. All users running i-Educar up to version 2.9.10 are affected.
💻 Affected Systems
- Portabilis i-Educar
📦 What is this software?
I Educar by Portabilis
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers gain administrative privileges, allowing complete system compromise, data theft, and further lateral movement within the network.
Likely Case
Unauthorized users gain elevated permissions to access sensitive student/teacher data, modify grades, or alter system configurations.
If Mitigated
With proper access controls and monitoring, impact is limited to attempted privilege escalation that can be detected and blocked.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploit requires authenticated access but can be combined with other vulnerabilities. Public exploit code is available on GitHub.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 2.9.11 or later
Vendor Advisory: https://github.com/portabilis/i-educar
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Backup your current installation. 2. Update to i-Educar version 2.9.11 or later. 3. Verify the AccessLevelController.php file has been updated. 4. Test user permission inheritance functionality.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Restrict Access to AccessLevelController
allTemporarily restrict direct access to the vulnerable controller file
chmod 600 app/Http/Controllers/AccessLevelController.php
Add IP-based restrictions in web server configuration
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict network segmentation to isolate i-Educar instances
- Enable detailed logging and monitoring for privilege escalation attempts
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check if app/Http/Controllers/AccessLevelController.php exists and compare hash with known vulnerable versionsCheck Version:
php artisan --version or check composer.jsonVerify Fix Applied:
Verify version is 2.9.11+ and test user permission inheritance with non-admin accounts📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Multiple failed permission inheritance requests
- Unusual user permission changes
- Access to AccessLevelController from unexpected IPs
Network Indicators:
- HTTP POST requests to AccessLevelController endpoints
- Unusual authentication patterns
SIEM Query:
source="i-educar-logs" AND (event="permission_change" OR controller="AccessLevelController")