Medium severity · published Jul 14, 2025
CVE-2025-53640
Indico vulnerable to user enumeration via API endpoint
6.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Indico is an event management system that uses Flask-Multipass, a multi-backend authentication system for Flask. Starting in version 2.2 and prior to version 3.3.7, an endpoint used to display details of users listed in certain fields (such as ACLs) could be misused to dump basic user details (such as name, affiliation and email) in bulk. Version 3.3.7 fixes the issue. Owners of instances that allow everyone to create a user account, who wish to truly restrict access to these user details, should consider restricting user search to managers. As a workaround, it is possible to restrict access to the affected endpoints (e.g. in the webserver config), but doing so would break certain form fields which could no longer show the details of the users listed in those fields, so upgrading instead is highly recommended.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 52% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IN
indico · indico
>= 2.2, < 3.3.7 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53640
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53640
Product
https://docs.getindico.io/en/stable/config/settings/#ALLOW_PUBLIC_USER_SEARCH
Product
https://docs.getindico.io/en/stable/installation/upgrade
Release Notes
https://github.com/indico/indico/releases/tag/v3.3.7
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/indico/indico/security/advisories/GHSA-q28v-664f-q6wj
Exploit
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve202553640-detect-indico-vulnerability
Exploit
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve202553640-mitigate-indico-vulnerability
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