CyberPower PowerPanel Business/PowerPanel Business Management hard-coded password

CVSS Meta Temp Score
CVSS is a standardized scoring system to determine possibilities of attacks. The Temp Score considers temporal factors like disclosure, exploit and countermeasures. The unique Meta Score calculates the average score of different sources to provide a normalized scoring system.
Current Exploit Price (≈)
Our analysts are monitoring exploit markets and are in contact with vulnerability brokers. The range indicates the observed or calculated exploit price to be seen on exploit markets. A good indicator to understand the monetary effort required for and the popularity of an attack.
CTI Interest Score
Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks. The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.
8.8$0-$5k0.00

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in CyberPower PowerPanel Business and PowerPanel Business Management up to 4.8.6 on Windows/Linux/macOS. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation causes hard-coded password. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2023-25131. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in CyberPower PowerPanel Business and PowerPanel Business Management up to 4.8.6 on Windows/Linux/macOS. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded password vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-259. The product contains a hard-coded password, which it uses for its own inbound authentication or for outbound communication to external components. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Use of default password vulnerability in PowerPanel Business Local/Remote for Windows v4.8.6 and earlier, PowerPanel Business Management for Windows v4.8.6 and earlier, PowerPanel Business Local/Remote for Linux 32bit v4.8.6 and earlier, PowerPanel Business Local/Remote for Linux 64bit v4.8.6 and earlier, PowerPanel Business Management for Linux 32bit v4.8.6 and earlier, PowerPanel Business Management for Linux 64bit v4.8.6 and earlier, PowerPanel Business Local/Remote for MacOS v4.8.6 and earlier, and PowerPanel Business Management for MacOS v4.8.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to log in to the server directly to perform administrative functions. Upon installation or upon first login, the application does not ask the user to change the 'admin' password.

The weakness was published 04/24/2023. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-25131 since 02/02/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1078.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-29110). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Vendor

Name

Version

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.8

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.3
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 9.8
NVD Vector: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 9.4
CNA Vector (ZUSO Advanced Research Team (ZUSO ART)): 🔍

CVSSv2info

AVACAuCIA
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
VectorComplexityAuthenticationConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock

VulDB Base Score: 🔍
VulDB Temp Score: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

Exploitinginfo

Class: Hard-coded password
CWE: CWE-259 / CWE-255
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

EPSS Score: 🔍
EPSS Percentile: 🔍

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔍

0-DayUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
TodayUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Timelineinfo

02/02/2023 🔍
04/24/2023 +80 days 🔍
04/24/2023 +0 days 🔍
10/28/2025 +918 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: cyberpower.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2023-25131 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-25131
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-227275
EUVD: 🔍

Entryinfo

Created: 04/24/2023 14:39
Updated: 10/28/2025 04:54
Changes: 04/24/2023 14:39 (46), 05/18/2023 10:03 (1), 05/18/2023 10:04 (11), 10/28/2025 04:54 (16)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Discussion

No comments yet. Languages: en.

Please log in to comment.

◂ PreviousOverviewNext ▸

Want to stay up to date on a daily basis?

Enable the mail alert feature now!