CVE-2025-53754
Published: 16 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-53754 is a medium-severity Use of Hard-coded Credentials (CWE-798) vulnerability in Org (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 31.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-21645
Vulnerability details
This vulnerability exists in Digisol DG-GR6821AC Router due to hard-coded Root Access Credentials in system configuration of the device firmware. An attacker with physical access could exploit this vulnerability by extracting the firmware and analyzing the binary data to obtain…
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the stored root access credentials. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to gain admin access to the targeted device.
- 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.
Enables users to notice when hard-coded credentials have been exploited for unauthorized access.
Security training explicitly warns against hard-coded credentials, lowering their use in systems.
Policy and procedures prohibit hard-coded credentials in favor of managed authentication.
External identity providers eliminate the need for hard-coded credentials in applications.
Changing default authenticators prior to first use and protecting content prevents use of hard-coded credentials.
Central credential stores and rotation policies remove the need for hard-coded credentials in configuration files or code.
Intelligence programs surface reports of campaigns that abuse hard-coded credentials in products, prompting removal or replacement and thereby reducing successful exploitation.
Planned investment enables secure credential storage and management systems instead of hard-coded credentials.