CVE-2025-0674

Critical

Published: 07 February 2025

Published

07 February 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.1575 94.8th percentile

Risk Priority 29 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-0674 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288) vulnerability in Cisa (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 5.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-2 (Account Management) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

IA-5 Authenticator Management good match

prevent

Directly protects authenticators like passwords from unauthorized disclosure and modification, preventing attackers from overwriting user passwords via endpoint manipulation.

AC-2 Account Management good match

prevent

Establishes and enforces account management processes requiring authorization for password changes, mitigating unauthorized access to account modification functions.

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match

prevent

Enforces approved access authorizations at the system level, blocking unauthenticated access to password management endpoints.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1098 Account Manipulation Persistence

Adversaries may manipulate accounts to maintain and/or elevate access to victim systems.

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Why these techniques?

Auth bypass on public-facing endpoint directly enables remote exploitation (T1190); password overwrite enables account manipulation for admin access (T1098).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

Multiple Elber products are affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability which allows unauthorized access to the password management functionality. Attackers can exploit this issue by manipulating the endpoint to overwrite any user's password within the system. This grants them unauthorized…

administrative access to protected areas of the application, compromising the device's system security.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-0674 is an authentication bypass vulnerability (CWE-288) affecting multiple Elber products. The flaw enables unauthorized access to the password management functionality through endpoint manipulation, allowing attackers to overwrite any user's password within the system. Published on 2025-02-07, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating critical severity with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. By targeting the affected endpoint, they can reset passwords for any user, thereby gaining unauthorized administrative access to protected areas of the application and fully compromising the device's system security.

The CISA ICS Advisory ICSA-25-035-03 provides further details on this vulnerability, including mitigation recommendations, available at https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-035-03.