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CVE-2025-45479: educoder challenges · Code Injection

Source CVE Database V5

0

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.8 Critical.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 12:55 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
9.8Critical
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 57% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 7 Jul 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

  1. Immediate isolation of educoder challenge environments from critical infrastructure and sensitive data to limit potential impact.
  2. Implement strict input validation and sanitization within container orchestration and code execution workflows to prevent injection of malicious content.
  3. Employ container security best practices such as running containers with least privilege, using read-only file systems, and disabling unnecessary capabilities.
  4. Monitor network traffic and container logs for anomalous behavior indicative of exploitation attempts.
  5. If possible, restrict network access to the container environments to trusted users and IP ranges.
  6. Engage with the educoder platform vendor or community to obtain patches or updates addressing this vulnerability as soon as they become available.
  7. Consider deploying runtime application self-protection (RASP) or container security tools that can detect and block code injection and unauthorized execution.
  8. Conduct regular security assessments and penetration testing focused on containerized environments to identify similar weaknesses.
  9. Educate developers and administrators on secure container deployment and the risks of executing untrusted code.

Description

Insufficient security mechanisms for created containers in educoder challenges v1.0 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via injecting crafted content into a container.

References

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