Ruoyi 4.8.1 Privilege Escalation via Department Rights (CVE-2025-56396)
CVE-2025-56396 Published on November 26, 2025

An issue was discovered in Ruoyi 4.8.1 allowing attackers to gain escalated privileges due to the owning department having higher rights than the active user.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-56396 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is an Authorization Vulnerability?

The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

CVE-2025-56396 has been classified to as an Authorization vulnerability or weakness.


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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.06%
Percentile
19.82%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.