4.9

CVE-2025-27231: zabbix Insufficiently Protected Credentials

CVSS: 4.9v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-27231DEBIAN-CVE-2025-27231
Published 03-10-2025Last modified 03-10-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-27231 is a medium (CVSS 4.9) Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in zabbix. EPSS estimates a 0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.9/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.46%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 03-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-10-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The LDAP 'Bind password' value cannot be read after saving, but a Super Admin account can leak it by changing LDAP 'Host' to a rogue LDAP server. To mitigate this, the 'Bind password' value is now reset on 'Host' change.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.46%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

39%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.46% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.46%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • zabbixAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1 | < 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • zabbixAll versions (No fix recorded)
Zabbix1 product
  • zabbix≥ 6.0.0, ≤ 6.0.40 | ≥ 7.0.0, ≤ 7.0.17 | ≥ 7.2.0, ≤ 7.2.11 | ≥ 7.4.0, ≤ 7.4.1 | ≥ 6.0.0, < 6.0.41 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.18 | ≥ 7.2.0, < 7.2.12 | ≥ 7.4.0, < 7.4.2

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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