CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-27580
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-335
Description
NIH BRICS (aka Biomedical Research Informatics Computing System) through 14.0.0-67 generates predictable tokens (that depend on username, time, and the fixed 7Dl9#dj- string) and thus allows unauthenticated users with a Common Access Card (CAC) to escalate privileges and compromise any account, including administrators.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness
References
- https://brics.cit.nih.gov brics.cit.nih.gov
- https://bugculture.io/CVE-2025-27580/ bugculture.io
- https://github.com/RoseHacks/Vulnerability.Research/blob/main/CVE-2025-27580/README.md github.com
- https://github.com/brics-dev/brics github.com
- https://github.com/brics-dev/brics/blob/26bc6bb627a9a60e6c6a8a8c29735ae98c2e2679/core/src/main/java/gov/nih/tbi/CoreConstants.java#L38 github.com
- https://github.com/brics-dev/brics/blob/26bc6bb627a9a60e6c6a8a8c29735ae98c2e2679/service/src/main/java/gov/nih/tbi/account/service/complex/AccountManagerImpl.java#L725-L732 github.com