Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-24843

Published
28 February 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
CVSS Score v4 5.1
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/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 0.0015 4th percentile
Risk Priority 28 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2025-24843 is a medium-severity Storage of Sensitive Data in a Mechanism without Access Control (CWE-921) vulnerability in Cisa (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.1 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Credentials In Files (T1552.001); ranked at the 4th 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SC-28 (Protection of Information at Rest) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Insecure file retrieval process that facilitates potential for file manipulation to affect product stability and confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and attestation of stored data.

CWE(s)
CWE-921

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1552.001 Credentials In Files Credential Access
Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
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T1552 Unsecured Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may search compromised systems to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials.
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T1005 Data from Local System Collection
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
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T1555 Credentials from Password Stores Credential Access
Adversaries may search for common password storage locations to obtain user credentials.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2023-41818Shared CWE-921
CVE-2025-24870Shared CWE-921
CVE-2025-30016Shared CWE-921
CVE-2023-2665Shared CWE-921
CVE-2024-9334Shared CWE-921
CVE-2023-41965Shared CWE-921
CVE-2024-5206Shared CWE-921

Affected Assets

Cisa
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 1 hardening rule · 1 OS baseline
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match

AC-3 directly requires enforcement of access authorizations on system resources including stored data, structurally eliminating storage without access control.

SC-28 Protection of Information at Rest good match

SC-28 mandates protection of information at rest, which is achieved in part by applying access controls to the storage mechanism.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match

Least privilege restricts which users or processes can access stored sensitive data, reducing the set of entities that could reach unprotected storage.

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 full match
prevents

Defining and enforcing access permissions on storage directly prevents the weakness.

PR.DS-01 mostly match
prevents

Protecting data-at-rest typically requires access controls or encryption on storage mechanisms.

PR.IR-01 partial match
prevents

Logical access protections on environments can reduce exposure of uncontrolled storage.

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.5.15 Access control mostly match
prevents

Access control policy directly requires protection of sensitive data wherever it is stored.

A.5.18 Access rights mostly match
prevents

Granting and reviewing access rights prevents unauthorized access to sensitive data on storage media.

A.8.3 Information access restriction mostly match
prevents

Information-access-restriction control directly enforces access controls on stored sensitive data.

A.5.12 Classification of information partial match
mitigates

Classification identifies sensitive data that must not be stored without access controls.

A.7.10 Storage media partial match
mitigates

Storage-media controls mandate physical and logical protection of media holding sensitive information.

A.8.10 Information deletion partial match
mitigates

Deletion reduces exposure but does not address the lack of access control on existing storage.

References