---
id: CVE-2025-8053
title: "Insufficient Granularity of Access Control vulnerability in opentext Flipper allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.\_The vulnerability could allow a low privilege user to interact with the backend API wit…"
summary: "Insufficient Granularity of Access Control vulnerability in opentext Flipper allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.\_The vulnerability could allow a low privilege user to interact with the backend API wit…"
severity: critical
cvss: 9.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-1220
vendor: opentext
product: flipper
affected:
  - flipper = 3.1.2
published: '2025-10-20'
updated: '2026-10-08'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-08T22:10:00.563'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8053'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://support.opentext.com/csm?id=ot_kb_unauthenticated&sysparm_article=KB0850532
    label: security@opentext.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00258
epssPercentile: 0.1739
ingestedAt: '2026-10-01T18:55:42.298Z'
---

## Overview

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control vulnerability in opentext Flipper allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels. The vulnerability could allow a low privilege user to interact with the backend API without sufficient privileges.

This issue affects Flipper: 3.1.2.

## Affected

- `flipper = 3.1.2`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.