CVE-2025-5894 Overview
CVE-2025-5894 is a Missing Authorization vulnerability [CWE-862] in the Smart Parking Management System from Honding Technology. The flaw exposes a privileged function that creates administrator accounts without verifying the caller's role. Authenticated users with regular privileges can invoke this function over the network, provision new administrator accounts, and then authenticate as those accounts to gain full control of the system.
Critical Impact
Any low-privileged authenticated user can escalate to administrator by creating arbitrary admin accounts, resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the parking management platform.
Affected Products
- Honding Technology Smart Parking Management System
Discovery Timeline
- 2025-06-09 - CVE-2025-5894 published to NVD
- 2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database
Technical Details for CVE-2025-5894
Vulnerability Analysis
The Smart Parking Management System exposes administrative account-creation functionality without enforcing role-based access control. The application authenticates the requesting user but does not verify whether the user is authorized to invoke the privileged endpoint. As a result, any authenticated session — including a regular operator — can submit a request to create a new account with administrator privileges.
The attacker then logs in with the newly created credentials and inherits full administrative capability. The vulnerability is classified under [CWE-862] Missing Authorization. The EPSS score is 0.548% (percentile 41.7) as of 2026-06-30, indicating low predicted exploitation activity to date, though the impact of successful exploitation is severe.
Root Cause
The root cause is the absence of a server-side authorization check on the administrator account-creation function. Authentication is treated as sufficient, and the function does not validate that the requesting principal holds an administrative role. Authorization decisions appear to rely on client-side controls or interface visibility rather than enforced server-side policy.
Attack Vector
Exploitation requires network access to the application and a valid low-privileged account. The attacker authenticates normally, then issues a direct request to the administrator-creation endpoint — bypassing the user interface that would normally hide it from non-admin users. Once the new administrator account exists, the attacker logs in through the standard login flow and operates with full privileges.
No verified public proof-of-concept code is available. See the TW-CERT Security Advisory for vendor-coordinated technical details.
Detection Methods for CVE-2025-5894
Indicators of Compromise
- Creation of administrator accounts outside of documented change-management windows or from accounts that do not normally perform user administration.
- Successful logins from newly created administrator accounts originating from unexpected IP addresses or user-agent strings.
- HTTP requests to administrator account-creation endpoints sourced from sessions belonging to regular (non-admin) users.
Detection Strategies
- Audit application logs for account-creation events and correlate the requesting session's role against the resulting account's privilege level.
- Alert when a session belonging to a non-administrative user issues a request to a privileged administrative endpoint.
- Baseline normal administrator-creation cadence and flag deviations or bursts of new privileged accounts.
Monitoring Recommendations
- Forward application access logs and authentication events to a centralized analytics platform for correlation and retention.
- Monitor for first-time logins from accounts created within the last 24 hours, especially those holding administrative roles.
- Track lateral movement and configuration changes performed by newly created accounts.
How to Mitigate CVE-2025-5894
Immediate Actions Required
- Contact Honding Technology to obtain the fixed version of the Smart Parking Management System and apply it on all instances.
- Review the administrator account list and disable or delete any accounts that cannot be tied to a legitimate provisioning record.
- Restrict network exposure of the management interface to trusted administrative networks until patched.
- Rotate credentials and session tokens for all accounts after patching to invalidate any attacker-held sessions.
Patch Information
Refer to the TW-CERT Security Advisory and the TW-CERT Incident Report for vendor remediation guidance and fixed-version information. No CPE or fixed-version data is published in NVD at this time.
Workarounds
- Place the application behind a reverse proxy or web application firewall and block direct access to administrator account-management endpoints from non-administrative source networks.
- Enforce network segmentation so that only administrator workstations can reach the management interface.
- Require multi-factor authentication on all administrative logins to limit the value of accounts created by an attacker.
Disclaimer: This content was generated using AI. While we strive for accuracy, please verify critical information with official sources.
