Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-46067

Exposed Creds in Automai Director 25.2.0

Exposed Creds
Published
12 January 2026
Modified
21 January 2026
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.2
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0026 18th percentile
Risk Priority 60 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-2025-46067 is a high-severity Use of Hard-coded Password (CWE-259) vulnerability in Automai Director. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Valid Accounts (T1078); ranked at the 18th 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 IA-5 (Authenticator Management) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2025-46067 is a vulnerability affecting Automai Director version 25.2.0, where an issue allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges and obtain sensitive information via a crafted JavaScript file. Published on 2026-01-12, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N) and maps to CWE-259.

The vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker requiring no privileges, user interaction, or special access, over the network with low attack complexity. Successful exploitation results in privilege escalation and access to sensitive information, yielding high confidentiality impact and low integrity impact, with no availability impact.

Mitigation details are available in advisories at https://gist.github.com/ZeroBreach-GmbH/98204cff0065e611cf9e9acc3be59e03 and vendor resources at https://www.automai.com/.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A07:2025 Authentication Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An issue in Automai Director v.25.2.0 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges and obtain sensitive information via a crafted js file

CWE(s)
CWE-259

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1078 Valid Accounts Stealth
Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of existing accounts as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.
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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.
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T1552 Unsecured Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may search compromised systems to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials.
attack.mitre.org →
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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T1133 External Remote Services Persistence
Adversaries may leverage external-facing remote services to initially access and/or persist within a network.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-46066Same product: Automai Director
CVE-2025-46068Same product: Automai Director
CVE-2026-22055Shared CWE-259
CVE-2024-2420Shared CWE-259
CVE-2025-3920Shared CWE-259
CVE-2025-30115Shared CWE-259
CVE-2024-28010Shared CWE-259
CVE-2024-29011Shared CWE-259
CVE-2023-29103Shared CWE-259
CVE-2025-59388Shared CWE-259

Affected Assets

automai
director
25.2.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

IA-5 Authenticator Management partial match

Authenticator management requires secure distribution, rotation, and verification of credentials, directly stopping hard-coded passwords from being introduced or used.

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.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly prohibit embedding credentials in source code or binaries.

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.5.17 Authentication information none match
prevents

Requiring users to change temporary or default passwords at first use stops the continued existence of hard-coded or guessable passwords that are shipped with the product.

References