{"cve":"CVE-2025-65998","nvd":{"published":"2025-11-24T14:15:48.417","modified":"2026-10-18T20:10:00.110","status":"Analyzed","description":"Apache Syncope can be configured to store the user password values in the internal database with AES encryption, though this is not the default option.\n\nWhen AES is configured, the default key value, hard-coded in the source code, is always used. This allows a malicious attacker, once obtained access to the internal database content, to reconstruct the original cleartext password values.\nThis is not affecting encrypted plain attributes, whose values are also stored using AES encryption.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 3.0.15 / 4.0.3, which fix this issue.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","score":7.5},"cwes":["CWE-321"],"references":["https://lists.apache.org/thread/fjh0tb0d1xkbphc5ogdsc348ppz88cts","http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/24/1"],"products":["apache:syncope"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:16:02.354564667+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-65998","score":0.00529,"percentile":0.44461,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-jqg8-m35q-jh7j","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jqg8-m35q-jh7j","summary":"Apache Syncope's AES encryption stores hard-coded passwords in internal database","modified":"2025-11-25T15:12:59.569746Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.syncope:syncope-core","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.syncope/syncope-core","ranges":[">=4.0.0 <4.0.3"],"fixed":["4.0.3"]},{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.syncope:syncope-core","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.syncope/syncope-core","ranges":["<3.0.15"],"fixed":["3.0.15"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}