Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-41657

Published
10 June 2025
Modified
17 June 2026
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0017 7th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-41657 is a medium-severity Observable Behavioral Discrepancy With Equivalent Products (CWE-207) vulnerability in Certvde (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Active Scanning (T1595); ranked at the 7th 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-30 (Concealment and Misdirection) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Due to an undocumented active bluetooth stack on products delivered within the period 01.01.2024 to 09.05.2025 fingerprinting is possible by an unauthenticated adjacent attacker.

CWE(s)
CWE-207

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1595 Active Scanning Reconnaissance
Adversaries may execute active reconnaissance scans to gather information that can be used during targeting.
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T1595.001 Scanning IP Blocks Reconnaissance
Adversaries may scan victim IP blocks to gather information that can be used during targeting.
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T1595.002 Vulnerability Scanning Reconnaissance
Adversaries may scan victims for vulnerabilities that can be used during targeting.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

Affected Assets

Certvde
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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)
  • V4.3.2
  • V12.1.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SC-30 Concealment and Misdirection good match

Concealment and misdirection techniques can mask or normalize observable behavioral differences so the system is not distinguishable from equivalent products.

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.

DE.CM-01 partial match
prevents

Network monitoring can detect probes that exploit observable behavioral differences.

DE.CM-09 partial match
prevents

Runtime monitoring of software and environments can surface anomalous responses revealing product identity.

PR.PS-01 partial match
prevents

Hardened, standardized configurations reduce unintended behavioral discrepancies across equivalent products.

PR.PS-06 partial match
prevents

Secure development practices can include eliminating distinguishable behavioral artifacts during design and coding.

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.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing can detect and eliminate observable behavioral discrepancies before deployment.

A.8.22 Segregation of networks partial match
mitigates

Network segregation can prevent attackers from observing behavioral differences across products.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure development lifecycle practices can eliminate observable behavioral discrepancies.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
prevents

Secure architecture principles can ensure equivalent products behave identically to external observers.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding practices can prevent implementation differences that leak product identity.

A.8.20 Networks security none match
none

Network security controls can hide behavioral differences that reveal product identity.

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-248579 OL 8 must restrict access to the kernel message buffer. prevents CWE-207

References