CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-65998
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-11-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-18
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-321
Description
Apache Syncope can be configured to store the user password values in the internal database with AES encryption, though this is not the default option.
When AES is configured, the default key value, hard-coded in the source code, is always used. This allows a malicious attacker, once obtained access to the internal database content, to reconstruct the original cleartext password values.
This is not affecting encrypted plain attributes, whose values are also stored using AES encryption.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.0.15 / 4.0.3, which fix this issue.
Affected configurations
• apache syncope (>= 2.1.0 <= 2.1.14)
• apache syncope (>= 3.0.0 < 3.0.15)
• apache syncope (>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-321 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key weakness
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/fjh0tb0d1xkbphc5ogdsc348ppz88cts Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/24/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory