CVE-2025-53108: HomeBox Missing User Authorization

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-07-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

HomeBox is a home inventory and organization system. Prior to 0.20.1, HomeBox contains a missing authorization check in the API endpoints responsible for updating and deleting inventory item attachments. This flaw allows authenticated users to perform unauthorized actions on inventory item attachments that they do not own. This issue could lead to unauthorized data manipulation or loss of critical inventory data. This issue has been patched in version 0.20.1. There are no workarounds, users must upgrade.

Affected products

sysadminsmedia homebox: before 0.20.1

References

https://github.com/sysadminsmedia/homebox/commit/e159dd8a0b5d01d7225795bfba5634781181df20
https://github.com/sysadminsmedia/homebox/security/advisories/GHSA-m6vx-pg9q-vq6m

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