CVE-2025-62649
📋 TL;DR
This vulnerability allows attackers to submit unauthorized equipment orders by bypassing server-side authentication checks. The Restaurant Brands International (RBI) assistant platform relies on client-side authentication, which can be manipulated. This affects all RBI restaurant chains (Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeyes) using the vulnerable platform.
💻 Affected Systems
- Restaurant Brands International (RBI) assistant platform
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers could order expensive equipment to unauthorized locations, causing significant financial loss and supply chain disruption across multiple restaurant chains.
Likely Case
Unauthorized equipment orders leading to financial loss, inventory discrepancies, and operational disruption at affected restaurants.
If Mitigated
With proper server-side authentication and validation, only authorized personnel can submit equipment orders, preventing unauthorized transactions.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires understanding of the platform's API endpoints and authentication mechanisms, but client-side authentication bypass is a well-known attack vector.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Versions after 2025-09-06
Vendor Advisory: Not publicly available
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Contact RBI for the latest patched version of the assistant platform. 2. Apply the update to all instances. 3. Verify server-side authentication is properly implemented.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Implement server-side authentication
allAdd server-side validation for all equipment order submissions to ensure proper authorization
Temporary API restriction
allRestrict access to equipment ordering APIs to authorized IP addresses only
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement network segmentation to isolate the assistant platform from external access
- Enable detailed logging and monitoring of all equipment order submissions for anomaly detection
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Test if equipment order submissions can be made without proper server-side authentication by attempting to bypass client-side checksCheck Version:
Check platform version in admin interface or contact RBI supportVerify Fix Applied:
Verify that all equipment order requests are validated server-side and unauthorized requests are rejected📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unauthorized equipment order submissions
- Failed authentication attempts followed by successful orders
- Unusual order patterns or quantities
Network Indicators:
- API calls to equipment ordering endpoints from unauthorized sources
- Unusual traffic patterns to order submission endpoints
SIEM Query:
source="assistant_platform" AND (event="order_submission" AND user="unknown" OR ip NOT IN authorized_ips)🔗 References
- https://archive.today/fMYQp
- https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250906134240/https:/bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus
- https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/09/popeyes-tim-hortons-burger-king-platforms-have-catastrophic-vulnerabilities-say-hackers
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/burger-king-hacked-attackers-impressed-124154038.html
