CVE-2025-2746 (GCVE-0-2025-2746)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-24 18:16
Modified
2025-09-23 15:43
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Summary
An authentication bypass vulnerability in Kentico Xperience allows authentication bypass via the Staging Sync Server password handling of empty SHA1 usernames in digest authentication. Authentication bypass allows an attacker to control administrative objects.This issue affects Xperience through 13.0.172.
References
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://devnet.kentico.com/download/hotfixes
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://github.com/watchtowrlabs/kentico-xperience13-AuthBypass-wt-2025-0011
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://labs.watchtowr.com/bypassing-authentication-like-its-the-90s-pre-auth-rce-chain-s-in-kentico-xperience-cms/
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