CVE-2025-22828: Apache CloudStack: Unauthorised access to annotations

[Nux <nux () apache org>]

Severity: Low

Affected versions:

- Apache CloudStack 4.16.0 or later

Description:

CloudStack users can add and read comments (annotations) on resources they are authorised to access. 

Due to an access validation issue that affects Apache CloudStack versions from 4.16.0, users who have access, prior 
access or knowledge of resource UUIDs can list and add comments (annotations) to such resources. 

An attacker with a user-account and access or prior knowledge of resource UUIDs may exploit this issue to read contents 
of the comments (annotations) or add malicious comments (annotations) to such resources. 

This may cause potential loss of confidentiality of CloudStack environments and resources if the comments (annotations) 
contain any privileged information. However, guessing or brute-forcing resource UUIDs are generally hard to impossible 
and access to listing or adding comments isn't same as access to CloudStack resources, making this issue of very low 
severity and general low impact.


CloudStack admins may also disallow listAnnotations and addAnnotation API access to non-admin roles in their 
environment as an interim measure.

Credit:

Alex Perrakis <alexperrakis1 () gmail com> (reporter)
Efstratios Chatzoglou <efchatzoglou () gmail com> (reporter)

References:

https://cloudstack.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22828