Insufficiently Protected CredentialsWeakness · CWE-522

CVE-2025-12461

MEDIUM · 6.9 CVSS v4.0 Published 2025-10-29
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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78/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
This vulnerability allows an attacker to access parts of the application that are not protected by any type of access control. The attacker could access this path ‘…/epsilonnet/License/About.aspx’ and obtain information on both the licence and the configuration of the product by knowing which modules are installed.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · high confidence

This is a broken access control vulnerability in an ASP.NET web application where the path '../epsilonnet/License/About.aspx' is accessible without authentication or authorization. An unauthenticated attacker can access this endpoint to retrieve sensitive information including license details, system configuration, and a list of installed modules.

MitigationImplement proper authentication and authorization controls on the '/epsilonnet/License/About.aspx' endpoint to ensure only authorized users can access license and configuration information.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
Authentication
X
User interaction
None
Scope
X

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

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  1. Locate the epsilonnet application in your web root
    Search your web server document root directories for an 'epsilonnet' folder, or check your IIS/Apache/Nginx configuration for any application mapped to a path containing 'epsilonnet'.
    Affected if The epsilonnet folder or application virtual path exists on the server.
  2. Verify the License/About.aspx file exists
    Check if the file 'About.aspx' exists under the path 'epsilonnet/License/' in your web root, or attempt to access the URL 'https://yourdomain/epsilonnet/License/About.aspx' from an unauthenticated browser session.
    Affected if The file exists and the URL is reachable.
  3. Test unauthenticated access to the endpoint
    From a browser or curl command without providing any authentication cookies or credentials, attempt to access 'http[s]://[your-server]/epsilonnet/License/About.aspx'. Observe whether the page loads and displays license or configuration information.
    Affected if The page loads and exposes license details, system configuration, or module lists without requiring login.
  4. Review web.config authorization settings
    If a web.config file exists in the epsilonnet directory, open it and inspect the <authorization> and <location> sections for the '/epsilonnet/License/About.aspx' path. Check if any allow/deny rules are defined.
    Affected if No authorization rules are defined, or the rules explicitly allow unauthenticated users (allow users='*' or allow users='?').

Your environment is affected if the epsilonnet application is installed with the License/About.aspx endpoint accessible without any authentication credentials.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement proper authentication and authorization controls on the '/epsilonnet/License/About.aspx' endpoint to ensure only authorized users can access license and configuration information.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
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