CVE-2025-5893

9.8 CRITICAL

📋 TL;DR

Smart Parking Management System from Honding Technology exposes plaintext administrator credentials through an unauthenticated web page. This allows remote attackers to gain full administrative access to the system. Organizations using this parking management software are affected.

💻 Affected Systems

Products:
  • Honding Technology Smart Parking Management System
Versions: Specific versions not specified in references, but appears to affect current deployments
Operating Systems: Likely embedded Linux systems running the parking management software
Default Config Vulnerable: ⚠️ Yes
Notes: The vulnerability exists in the web interface component of the parking management system.

⚠️ Manual Verification Required

This CVE does not have specific version information in our database, so automatic vulnerability detection cannot determine if your system is affected.

Why? The CVE database entry doesn't specify which versions are vulnerable (no version ranges provided by the vendor/NVD).

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Recommended Actions:
  1. Review the CVE details at NVD
  2. Check vendor security advisories for your specific version
  3. Test if the vulnerability is exploitable in your environment
  4. Consider updating to the latest version as a precaution

⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact

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Worst Case

Attackers gain full administrative control, can manipulate parking systems, access sensitive data, and potentially pivot to other network systems.

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Likely Case

Attackers obtain admin credentials and compromise the parking management system, potentially disrupting operations or accessing sensitive information.

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If Mitigated

With proper network segmentation and access controls, impact is limited to the parking management system only.

🌐 Internet-Facing: HIGH - The vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote exploitation, making internet-exposed systems immediately vulnerable.
🏢 Internal Only: HIGH - Even internally, unauthenticated access to credentials poses significant risk to system integrity.

🎯 Exploit Status

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

Exploitation requires only accessing a specific URL to retrieve plaintext credentials.

🛠️ Fix & Mitigation

✅ Official Fix

Patch Version: Not specified

Vendor Advisory: Not provided in references

Restart Required: No

Instructions:

1. Contact Honding Technology for patch information 2. Apply any available updates 3. Change all administrator passwords after patching

🔧 Temporary Workarounds

Network Access Restriction

linux

Block external access to the parking management system web interface

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport [WEB_PORT] -j DROP
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="0.0.0.0/0" port port="[WEB_PORT]" protocol="tcp" reject'

Web Server Configuration

all

Implement authentication or IP whitelisting for the vulnerable endpoint

# Configure web server (Apache/Nginx) to require authentication for the specific path
# Example Apache: <Location "/vulnerable-path">
#   AuthType Basic
#   AuthName "Restricted"
#   AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
#   Require valid-user
# </Location>

🧯 If You Can't Patch

  • Isolate the parking management system on a separate VLAN with strict access controls
  • Implement network monitoring and alerting for access attempts to the vulnerable endpoint

🔍 How to Verify

Check if Vulnerable:

Access the specific vulnerable URL (details not disclosed for security) and check if it returns plaintext credentials

Check Version:

Check system documentation or contact vendor for version information

Verify Fix Applied:

Attempt to access the vulnerable endpoint and verify it no longer returns credentials or requires authentication

📡 Detection & Monitoring

Log Indicators:

  • Unauthenticated access to the specific vulnerable endpoint
  • Multiple failed login attempts followed by successful admin login from new IP

Network Indicators:

  • HTTP GET requests to the vulnerable endpoint from external IPs
  • Unusual admin login patterns or locations

SIEM Query:

source="web_logs" AND (url="*/vulnerable-endpoint*" OR status=200 AND user_agent="*scanner*")

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