CVE-2025-10641
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:NCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2025-10641 is a high-severity Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information (CWE-319) vulnerability in Sec Consult (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Network Sniffing (T1040); ranked at the 23th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-8 (Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-35164
Vulnerability Data
All WorkExaminer Professional traffic between monitoring client, console and server is transmitted as plain text. This allows an attacker with access to the network to read the transmitted sensitive data. An attacker can also freely modify the data on the…
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wire. The monitoring clients transmit their data to the server using the unencrypted FTP. Clients connect to the FTP server on port 12304 and transmit the data unencrypted. In addition, all traffic between the console client and the server at port 12306 is unencrypted.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-8 directly requires protecting confidentiality of transmitted information, which structurally eliminates cleartext transmission of sensitive data.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Encryption of data-in-transit directly prevents cleartext transmission while the control also addresses integrity and availability.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
A.8.21 mandates identifying/implementing network service security features (explicitly including encryption and connection controls), formulating rules that cover authentication/authorization/monitoring/VPNs, and ensuring providers do the same; this stops cleartext transmission from being exploitable in the large majority of network channels, with a bounded remainder (e.g. internal non-networked flows or unaddressed legacy protocols).
Mandating cryptographic protection and stronger authentication on public networks stops the transmission of plaintext sensitive information.
A.5.17 mandates secure transmission of authentication information, removing cleartext transmission of that specific sensitive data, but does not address other sensitive information transmitted in cleartext, so it removes only a subset of CWE-319 instances.
A.8.5 requires that passwords not be transmitted in cleartext, so applying it removes that specific instance of cleartext transmission, but it does not address other sensitive information sent in cleartext.