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CVE-2025-57789 (GCVE-0-2025-57789)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-20 03:22 – Updated: 2025-09-10 15:54

Title

Vulnerability in Initial Administrator Login Process

Summary

During the brief window between installation and the first administrator login, remote attackers may exploit the default credential to gain admin control. This is limited to the setup phase, before any jobs have been configured.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-257 - Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

https://documentation.commvault.com/securityadvis…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Commvault	CommCell	Affected: 11.32.0 , ≤ 11.32.101 (semver) Affected: 11.36.0 , ≤ 11.36.59 (semver)

Credits

Sonny and Piotr Bazydlo (@chudyPB) of watchTowr

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GHSA-2VJV-2JWR-W8HR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-20 06:30 – Updated: 2025-08-21 15:30

Details

An issue was discovered in Commvault before 11.36.60. During the brief window between installation and the first administrator login, remote attackers may exploit the default credential to gain admin control. This is limited to the setup phase, before any jobs have been configured.

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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FKIE_CVE-2025-57789

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-20 04:16 - Updated: 2025-09-10 16:15

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	050066fd-a2f9-4f32-ab5d-4c53f48bc333	https://documentation.commvault.com/securityadvisories/CV_2025_08_4.html	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	commvault	commvault	*

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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CVE-2025-57789 (GCVE-0-2025-57789)

GHSA-2VJV-2JWR-W8HR

FKIE_CVE-2025-57789

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