Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-15114

Kseniasecurity Lares Firmware 1.6

Public PoC
Published
30 December 2025
Modified
11 March 2026
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 0.0051 41th percentile
Risk Priority 46 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-15114 is a critical-severity File Descriptor Leak (CWE-403) vulnerability in Kseniasecurity Lares Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Cloud Instance Metadata API (T1552.005); ranked at the 41th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Ksenia Security lares (legacy model) Home Automation version 1.6 contains a critical security flaw that exposes the alarm system PIN in the 'basisInfo' XML file after authentication. Attackers can retrieve the PIN from the server response to bypass security measures…

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and disable the alarm system without additional authentication.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access the Cloud Instance Metadata API to collect credentials and other sensitive data.
T1552.007 Container API Credential Access
Adversaries may gather credentials via APIs within a containers environment.
T1039 Data from Network Shared Drive Collection
Adversaries may search network shares on computers they have compromised to find files of interest.
T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Collection
Adversaries may access data from cloud storage.
T1552 Unsecured Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may search compromised systems to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials.
T1552.001 Credentials In Files Credential Access
Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-15113Same product: Kseniasecurity Lares
CVE-2025-15111Same product: Kseniasecurity Lares
CVE-2025-15112Same product: Kseniasecurity Lares
CVE-2024-40725Shared CWE-668
CVE-2023-39049Shared CWE-668
CVE-2025-38670Shared CWE-668
CVE-2023-45357Shared CWE-668
CVE-2023-22892Shared CWE-668
CVE-2023-32394Shared CWE-668
CVE-2023-39155Shared CWE-668

Affected Assets

kseniasecurity
lares firmware
1.6

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 8 hardening rules · 7 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Access enforcement directly stops resources from being reachable by actors outside the intended control sphere.

Information flow enforcement structurally prevents unintended cross-sphere data or resource exposure.

Least privilege reduces the set of actors that can reach a resource, limiting wrong-sphere exposure.

Security attributes enable correct sphere assignment and subsequent enforcement decisions.

Maintains separate execution domains so file descriptors cannot be unintentionally inherited by child processes.

Prevents unintended information transfer via shared file descriptors between parent and child processes.

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-05 mostly match
prevents

Enforcing least-privilege authorizations directly prevents resources from being exposed outside their intended control sphere.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly include code reviews and static analysis that catch file-descriptor leaks before child-process invocation.

PR.IR-01 partial match
prevents

Network segmentation and unauthorized-access protections reduce the chance of resources being reachable by the wrong sphere.

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.

finds

Security testing can uncover descriptor leaks but does not prevent them by itself.

mitigates

Placing systems of differing trust levels into separate domains prevents resources from being placed in a sphere where they are reachable by unintended actors.

prevents

Secure SDLC practices include code reviews and static analysis that can detect leaked descriptors.

prevents

Secure coding rules require closing inherited file descriptors before spawning child processes.

none

Requiring owners to manage the full asset life cycle and remove assets from the inventory upon secure disposal helps prevent resources from being inadvertently exposed outside their intended security sphere.

none

Information access restriction policies may limit which processes can use descriptors, but do not address the leak itself.

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 (2 rules)
  • V-248827 OL 8 must not have the rsh-server package installed. prevents CWE-668
  • V-248823 OL 8 must not have the telnet-server package installed. prevents CWE-668
RHEL 7 (1 rule)
  • V-204442 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must not have the rsh-server package installed. prevents CWE-668
Windows 10 (1 rule)
  • V-220967 The Debug programs user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group. prevents CWE-668
Windows 11 (1 rule)
  • V-253490 The "Debug programs" user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group. prevents CWE-668
Windows Server 2016 (1 rule)
  • V-225079 The Debug programs user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group. prevents CWE-668
Windows Server 2019 (1 rule)
  • V-205757 Windows Server 2019 Debug programs: user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group. prevents CWE-668
Windows Server 2022 (1 rule)
  • V-254500 Windows Server 2022 debug programs user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group. prevents CWE-668

References