Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-12871

Aenrich A\+Hrd ≤ 7.5

Published
12 November 2025
Modified
18 November 2025
CVSS Score v4 9.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0058 45th percentile
Risk Priority 46 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-12871 is a critical-severity Weak Authentication (CWE-1390) vulnerability in Aenrich A\+Hrd. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Brute Force (T1110); ranked at the 45th 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 IA-12 (Identity Proofing) and IA-2 (Identification and Authentication (Organizational Users)) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2025-12871 is an Authentication Abuse vulnerability (CWE-1390) affecting the a+HRD software developed by aEnrich. Published on 2025-11-12, it enables unauthenticated remote attackers to craft administrator access tokens and use them to access the system with elevated privileges. The vulnerability 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 due to its network accessibility, low attack complexity, and lack of required privileges or user interaction.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network without privileges. By crafting valid administrator tokens, they gain elevated access to the system, potentially achieving high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption of services.

Advisories from TWCERT/CC (https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-10487-12a32-2.html, https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-10486-a3459-1.html) and CHT Security (https://www.chtsecurity.com/news/b97e8337-6b0c-43e8-8e8c-187b7c0e13c2) provide further details on the vulnerability, including potential mitigation guidance.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

The a+HRD developed by aEnrich has an Authentication Abuse vulnerability, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to craft administrator access tokens and use them to access the system with elevated privileges.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1110 Brute Force Credential Access
Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.
T1078 Valid Accounts Stealth
Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of existing accounts as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.
T1110.001 Password Guessing Credential Access
Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts.
T1110.003 Password Spraying Credential Access
Adversaries may use a single or small list of commonly used passwords against many different accounts to attempt to acquire valid account credentials.
T1078.001 Default Accounts Stealth
Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of a default account as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.
T1078.002 Domain Accounts Stealth
Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of a domain account as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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CVE-2024-3775Same product: Aenrich A\+Hrd

Affected Assets

aenrich
a\+hrd
≤ 7.5

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 9 hardening rules · 7 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V7.6.1
  • V6.3.6
  • V6.4.2
  • V6.4.4

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Requires identity proofing at appropriate assurance levels before granting accounts, directly addressing insufficient proof of identity.

Requires unique identification and authentication of users, directly stopping weak mechanisms from being used.

Requires device identification and authentication before establishing connections.

Extends strong identification and authentication requirements to non-organizational users.

Mandates proper authenticator issuance, management, and strength to ensure claimed identities are verified.

Enforces access decisions based on authenticated identities, making weak authentication less exploitable.

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.

PR.AA-03 full match
prevents

Explicitly requires authentication of users/services/hardware with MFA and password-strength controls.

PR.AA-02 mostly match
prevents

Identity proofing and binding is a core prerequisite for non-weak authentication.

PR.AA-01 partial match
prevents

Credential management directly supports stronger authentication but does not guarantee proof of identity.

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.

prevents

Mandating multi-factor and non-password authentication techniques counters the use of inherently weak single-factor or password-only authentication mechanisms.

prevents

Strong-password and non-reuse requirements raise the bar against weak single-factor authentication that can be exploited via guessing or credential stuffing.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

Oracle Linux 8 (1 rule)
  • V-248827 OL 8 must not have the rsh-server package installed. prevents CWE-1390
RHEL 7 (1 rule)
  • V-204442 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must not have the rsh-server package installed. prevents CWE-1390
RHEL 8 (1 rule)
  • V-230492 RHEL 8 must not have the rsh-server package installed. prevents CWE-1390
Ubuntu 22.04 (1 rule)
  • V-260470 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, when booted, must require authentication upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes. prevents CWE-1390
Windows 10 (1 rule)
  • V-220865 The Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service must not use Basic authentication. prevents CWE-1390
Windows 11 (1 rule)
  • V-253418 The Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service must not use Basic authentication. prevents CWE-1390

References