Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-1468

High

Published: 18 March 2025

Published
18 March 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0031 54.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may search compromised systems to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-1468 is a vulnerability in the CODESYS OPC UA Server that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to access sensitive information, including authentication credentials, when the non-default Basic128Rsa15 security policy is enabled. Rated at CVSS 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), it stems from CWE-203 (Observable Discrepancy) and was published on 2025-03-18.

The attack requires no privileges or user interaction, exploiting the vulnerability over the network with low complexity. A remote attacker can retrieve high-impact confidential data, such as authentication information, without affecting integrity or availability.

Mitigation details are provided in the advisory at https://cert.vde.com/en/advisories/VDE-2025-022.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-203

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1552 Unsecured Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may search compromised systems to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials.
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Why these techniques?

The vulnerability enables remote exploitation of a public-facing OPC UA server (T1190) to disclose authentication credentials (T1552).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

References