CVE-2025-53187
Published: 11 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-53187 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288) vulnerability in Abb (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked at the 48.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-24162
Vulnerability details
Due to an issue in configuration, code that was intended for debugging purposes was included in the market release of the ASPECT FW allowing an attacker to bypass authentication. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to change the system time,…
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access files, and make function calls without prior authentication. This issue affects all versions of ASPECT prior to 3.08.04-s01
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Authorizing remote access reduces the ability to bypass authentication via unauthorized alternate remote channels.
Users can identify logons via alternate paths or channels by reviewing the previous logon time.
Adaptive requirements can apply across access paths, reducing the ability to bypass authentication via alternate channels or paths.
Centralized IdPs close alternate authentication paths that enable bypass.
Enforces authentication for non-organizational users, making it harder to bypass via alternate paths or channels.
Requires authentication to occur exclusively over the isolated trusted path, directly preventing bypass via alternate or untrusted channels.