CVE-2025-41683

HighRCE

Published: 23 July 2025

Published

23 July 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0091 76.2th percentile

Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-41683 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Certvde (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 23.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-41683 is an OS command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) in the Main Web Interface of affected devices, stemming from improper sanitization of user input in the event_mail_test endpoint. Published on 2025-07-23, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H), indicating high severity due to its potential for significant confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts.

An authenticated remote attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low complexity and no user interaction required. By crafting malicious input to the event_mail_test endpoint, the attacker can execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the affected device, enabling full system compromise.

Mitigation details are available in the advisory from CERT VDE at https://certvde.com/de/advisories/VDE-2025-052.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-22436

Vulnerability details

An authenticated remote attacker can execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on affected devices due to lack of improper sanitizing of user input in the Main Web Interface (endpoint event_mail_test).

CWE(s): CWE-78

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution

Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.

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Why these techniques?

OS command injection in public web interface directly enables remote exploitation of the app (T1190) and arbitrary Unix shell command execution as root (T1059.004).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1