GHSA-79f6-p65j-3m2m
MobSF Local Privilege Escalation
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Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
**Product:** Mobile Security Framework (MobSF)
**Version:** 4.3.0
**CWE-ID:** CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
**CVSS vector v.4.0:** 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N)
**CVSS vector v.3.1:** 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
**Description:** MobSF has a functionality of dividing users by roles. This functionality is not efficient, because any registered user can get API Token with all privileges.
**Impact:** Information Disclosure
**Vulnerable component:** Code output component (`/source_code`)
**Exploitation conditions:** authorized user
**Mitigation:** Remove token output in the returned js-script
**Researcher:** Egor Filatov (Positive Technologies)
## Research
Researcher discovered zero-day vulnerability «Local Privilege Escalation» in Mobile Security Framework (MobSF).
To reproduce the vulnerability follow the steps below.
• A user with minimal privileges is required, so the administrator must create a user account
<img width="215" alt="fig1" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/43e02a50-bdd9-48d9-9194-73946fcc56d9" />
*Figure 1. Registration*
• Go to static analysis of any application
<img width="1207" alt="fig2" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9ed141a7-a667-4a96-81fd-d81127874104" />
*Figure 2. Static analysis*
• Go to the code review of the selected application and get a token with all privileges in the response
<img width="1400" alt="fig3" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bf8b704b-9067-4861-a7d3-05ec119d9a3f" />
*Figure 3. Token receiving*
• This token can be used to retrieve dynamic analysis information that has not been accessed before.

*Figure 4. No access demonstration*
<img width="1412" alt="fig5" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dc8f639f-36b0-47d3-807d-58ae551fcbfc" />
*Figure 5. Token usage*
As a result, the user is able to escalate the privileges.
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### Please, assign all credits to: Egor Filatov (Positive Technologies)
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF/security/advisories/GHSA-79f6-p65j-3m2m
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24805
- https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF/commit/05206e72cae35b311615a70e51e1a946955c5e83
- https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF