Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2025-70030 is a denial-of-service weakness in Sunbird-Ed SunbirdEd-portal v1.13.4. A vulnerable regular expression can take excessive processing time, allowing an unauthenticated network attacker to degrade service availability. The sources do not identify data theft or integrity impact.
Executive priority
Prioritize this as a high availability risk for affected public portals. It is not currently evidenced as exploited, but unauthenticated network reachability and high availability impact justify near-term inventory and mitigation.
Technical view
The CVE maps to CWE-1333, Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS 3.1 is 7.5: network reachable, low complexity, no privileges, no user interaction, unchanged scope, and high availability impact only. Affected product metadata is sparse, but the description names SunbirdEd-portal v1.13.4.
Likely exposure
Organizations running SunbirdEd-portal v1.13.4, especially internet-facing or unauthenticated portal instances, should treat exposure as plausible. The CVE record’s affected vendor/product fields are incomplete, so asset validation is required.
Exploitation context
The provided sources do not show CISA KEV listing or active exploitation. The risk is availability loss from expensive regex processing over a network-accessible path; exact triggering input and vulnerable code path are not established in the bundle.
Researcher notes
Key gaps are the missing structured affected-product metadata and absent official fix details in the supplied bundle. Do not assume other Sunbird components or versions are affected without vendor confirmation.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory SunbirdEd-portal deployments and identify any v1.13.4 instances.
- Check Sunbird-Ed project guidance for a fixed version or official workaround.
- Apply vendor-provided updates when available and test portal availability afterward.
- Use rate limiting and request timeouts on exposed portal endpoints.
- Restrict unnecessary public access until vendor remediation is confirmed.
Validation and detection
- Confirm deployed SunbirdEd-portal version from release metadata or build artifacts.
- Review CVE references and vendor repository for remediation commits or advisories.
- Check logs for repeated requests correlated with CPU spikes or request timeouts.
- Validate reverse proxy timeout and rate-limit controls on portal routes.
- Track whether the CVE gains KEV status or vendor patch details.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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- High
- CVSS
- 7.5 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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SSVC decision data
CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H3.93.6CISA-ADPVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
7.5HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Vulnerability timeline
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- CVE reservedCVE Program
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- CVE publishedCVE Program
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- CVE updatedCVE Program
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ADP provider summaries
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/Sunbird-EdCVE reference, mitre
- https://github.com/Sunbird-Ed/SunbirdEd-portalCVE reference, mitre
- https://gist.github.com/zcxlighthouse/d80812b9d90683c0ac65db656ae3cfb0CVE reference, mitre
Products and packages named in the record
CWE details
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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.