Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-44954

Critical

Published: 04 August 2025

Published
04 August 2025
Modified
07 August 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0020 42.3th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-44954 is a critical-severity Use of Default Cryptographic Key (CWE-1394) vulnerability in Commscope Ruckus Smartzone Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.0 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Default Accounts (T1078.001); ranked at the 42.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

RUCKUS SmartZone (SZ) before 6.1.2p3 Refresh Build has a hardcoded SSH private key for a root-equivalent user account.

CWE(s)
CWE-1394

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1078.001 Default Accounts Stealth
Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of a default account as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.
attack.mitre.org →
T1021.004 SSH Lateral Movement
Adversaries may use [Valid Accounts](https://attack.
attack.mitre.org →
Why these techniques?

Hardcoded SSH private key for root-equivalent account enables unauthenticated remote access using default credentials via SSH.

Affected Assets

commscope
ruckus smartzone firmware
6.1.2, 7.0.0, 7.1.0 · ≤ 6.1.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References