NetBird VPN up to 0.56.x default credentials

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in NetBird VPN up to 0.56.x. It has been declared as very critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation results in default credentials. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-10678. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in NetBird VPN up to 0.56.x. Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a default credentials vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-1392. The product uses default credentials (such as passwords or cryptographic keys) for potentially critical functionality. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

NetBird VPN when installed using vendor's provided script failed to remove or change default password of an admin account created by ZITADEL. This issue affects instances installed using vendor's provided script. This issue may affect instances created with Docker if the default password was not changed nor the user was removed. This issue has been fixed in version 0.57.0

The weakness was released by Adam Sobieraj. The advisory is shared for download at cert.pl. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-10678 since 09/18/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 10/21/2025).

Upgrading to version 0.57.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-35061). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Network Encryption Software

Vendor

• NetBird

Name

• VPN

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26
• 0.27
• 0.28
• 0.29
• 0.30
• 0.31
• 0.32
• 0.33
• 0.34
• 0.35
• 0.36
• 0.37
• 0.38
• 0.39
• 0.40
• 0.41
• 0.42
• 0.43
• 0.44
• 0.45
• 0.46
• 0.47
• 0.48
• 0.49
• 0.50
• 0.51
• 0.52
• 0.53
• 0.54
• 0.55
• 0.56

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