Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-70041

Exposed Creds

Exposed Creds
Published
11 March 2026
Modified
10 May 2026
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0044 37th percentile
Risk Priority 71 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-2025-70041 is a critical-severity Use of Hard-coded Password (CWE-259) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Valid Accounts (T1078); ranked at the 37th 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-2025-70041, published on 2026-03-11, involves a use of hard-coded password issue (CWE-259) discovered in the master branch of oslabs-beta ThermaKube. This vulnerability affects the ThermaKube software component developed by oslabs-beta, earning a critical CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 due to its severe impact potential.

The vulnerability enables exploitation over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) or user interaction (UI:N), and without changing scope (S:U). Attackers can achieve high impacts on confidentiality (C:H), integrity (I:H), and availability (A:H), potentially allowing unauthorized access to sensitive functions, data exfiltration, system modification, or denial of service on affected ThermaKube instances.

References for further details include a GitHub Gist at https://gist.github.com/zcxlighthouse/cbd6fd6ca486460573e0611ee547f763, the oslabs-beta organization page at https://github.com/oslabs-beta, and the ThermaKube repository at https://github.com/oslabs-beta/ThermaKube. No specific mitigation steps or patches are outlined in the available CVE information.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A07:2025 Authentication Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An issue pertaining to CWE-259: Use of Hard-coded Password was discovered in oslabs-beta ThermaKube master.

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.
attack.mitre.org →
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-2026-22055Shared CWE-259
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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
CVE-2024-8580Shared CWE-259
CVE-2024-37644Shared CWE-259

Affected Assets

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