CVE-2025-69271
Published: 12 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-69271 is a high-severity Insufficiently Protected Credentials (CWE-522) vulnerability in Broadcom Dx Netops Spectrum. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Network Sniffing (T1040); ranked at the 15.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
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.
Training instructs users on protecting credentials from disclosure or unauthorized access.
Training records for security awareness and role-based training verify education on credential protection practices, tangibly reducing risks from mishandling or exposing credentials.
Protecting authenticator content from unauthorized disclosure and modification while requiring protective controls addresses insufficiently protected credentials.
Rules of behavior include credential protection and non-sharing requirements, reducing exposure of insufficiently protected credentials.
Terminating or revoking credentials stops use of insufficiently protected or lingering credentials post-termination.
Requiring confidentiality/integrity protection for stored credentials directly mitigates insufficiently protected credentials on disk or in configuration stores.
Credentials or keys delivered out-of-band are not exposed to interception or inadequate protection on the main transport.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Vulnerability directly enables network sniffing of unprotected credentials (CWE-522) over remote connections.
NVD Description
Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in Broadcom DX NetOps Spectrum on Windows, Linux allows Sniffing Attacks.This issue affects DX NetOps Spectrum: 24.3.13 and earlier.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-69271 is an Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability (CWE-522) in Broadcom DX NetOps Spectrum on Windows and Linux platforms. It affects versions 24.3.13 and earlier, enabling sniffing attacks. Published on 2026-01-12T05:16:11.060, the issue carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), reflecting high severity primarily due to confidentiality impact.
Remote network-based attackers require no privileges, authentication, or user interaction to exploit this vulnerability. Successful attacks allow sniffing of credentials, resulting in high confidentiality loss without impacting integrity or availability.
Mitigation guidance is available in the Broadcom security advisory at https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36756.
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