CVE-2025-4059: code-projects prison_management_system

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-4059 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in code-projects prison_management_system. EPSS estimates a 0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 29-04-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 29-04-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in code-projects Prison Management System 1.0. This vulnerability affects the function addrecord of the component Prison_Mgmt_Sys. The manipulation of the argument filename leads to stack-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
• CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowA stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).
• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteThe product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.