{"id":63335,"date":"2025-05-19T21:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-4876-connectwise-risk-assessment-hardcoded-aes-key-disclosure\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T21:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T18:02:36","slug":"cve-2025-4876-connectwise-risk-assessment-hardcoded-aes-key-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-4876-connectwise-risk-assessment-hardcoded-aes-key-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-4876 &#8211; ConnectWise Risk Assessment Hardcoded AES Key Disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-4876<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> May 19, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 52\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>ConnectWise-Password-Encryption-Utility.exe in ConnectWise Risk Assessment allows an attacker to extract a hardcoded AES decryption key via reverse engineering. This key is embedded in plaintext within the binary and used in cryptographic operations without dynamic key management. Once obtained the key can be used to decrypt CSV input files\u00a0used for authenticated network scanning.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 6.0 | MEDIUM<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-4876 Published : May 19, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 52\u00a0minutes ago Description : ConnectWise-Password-Encryption-Utility.exe in ConnectWise Risk Assessment allows an attacker to extract a hardcoded AES decryption key via reverse engineering. This key is embedded in plaintext within the binary and used in cryptographic operations without dynamic key management. Once obtained the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}