# CVE-2025-66289

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-66289
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 8.7 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N)
- **CWE:** CWE-613
- **Published:** Nov 29, 2025
- **Last Modified:** Mar 13, 2026

## Description

OrangeHRM is a comprehensive human resource management (HRM) system. From version 5.0 to 5.7, the application does not invalidate existing sessions when a user is disabled or when a password change occurs, allowing active session cookies to remain valid indefinitely. As a result, a disabled user, or an attacker using a compromised account, can continue to access protected pages and perform operations as long as a prior session remains active. Because the server performs no session revocation or session-store cleanup during these critical state changes, disabling an account or updating credentials has no effect on already-established sessions. This makes administrative disable actions ineffective and allows unauthorized users to retain full access even after an account is closed or a password is reset, exposing the system to prolonged unauthorized use and significantly increasing the impact of account takeover scenarios. This issue has been patched in version 5.8.

## Affected Products

- orangehrm — orangehrm (>= 5.0, < 5.8)

## References

- [CNA](https://github.com/orangehrm/orangehrm/security/advisories/GHSA-99qp-xh4q-pr9x)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.28%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 19.8

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-11._