CVE-2025-41715
Published: 24 September 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-41715 is a critical-severity Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306) vulnerability in Certvde (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 32.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-14 (Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication) and IA-8 (Identification and Authentication (Non-organizational Users)).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-41715 is a critical vulnerability in a web application where its database is exposed without authentication. This flaw, associated with CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function), enables unauthorized access to the database component. Published on 2025-09-24 with 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), it poses a severe risk due to its high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction or privileges required. Exploitation allows the attacker to gain unauthorized access to the database, potentially leading to its full compromise, including data exfiltration, modification, or disruption.
Mitigation guidance is available in the advisory published by CERT VDE at https://certvde.com/de/advisories/VDE-2025-087.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-30954
Vulnerability details
The database for the web application is exposed without authentication, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and potentially compromise it.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Missing authentication on exposed database in web app directly enables remote exploitation of public-facing application (T1190) for data access/compromise.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
AC-14 requires identification and documentation of specific actions permitted without identification or authentication, directly preventing unauthorized access to critical functions like the exposed database.
IA-8 mandates identification and authentication of non-organizational users before allowing system access, blocking unauthenticated remote attackers from compromising the database.
SC-14 enforces protections for public access by controlling external connections and disabling unnecessary interfaces, mitigating the network exposure of the unauthenticated database.