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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-4876

ConnectWise-Password-Encryption-Utility.exe in ConnectWise Risk Assessment allows an attacker to extract a hardcoded AES decryption key via reverse engineering.

Published May 19, 2025 · catalog updated Sep 3, 2025 · ConnectWise Risk Assessment

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-4876. EPSS is 0.11%. Act only if a listed version of ConnectWise Risk Assessment is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
Medium6.0
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.11%
Remediation
Advisory link
Affected products
vendor ConnectWise Risk Assessment All versions prior to deprecation (July 2023)

ConnectWise-Password-Encryption-Utility.exe in ConnectWise Risk Assessment allows an attacker to extract a hardcoded AES decryption key via reverse engineering. This key is embedded in plaintext within the binary and used in cryptographic operations without dynamic key management. Once obtained the key can be used to decrypt CSV input files used for authenticated network scanning.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor ConnectWise Risk Assessment All versions prior to deprecation (July 2023)All versions prior to deprecation (July 2023)

How to fix CVE-2025-4876

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-4876. EPSS is 0.11%. Act only if a listed version of ConnectWise Risk Assessment is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with ConnectWise Risk Assessment All versions prior to deprecation (July 2023) All versions prior to deprecation (July 2023). Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.11%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. May 19, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    ConnectWise-Password-Encryption-Utility.exe in ConnectWise Risk Assessment allows an attacker to extract a hardcoded AES decryption key via reverse engineering. This key is embedded in plaintext within the binary and used in cryptographic operations without dynamic key management. Once obtained the key can be used to decrypt CSV input files used for authenticated network scanning.

  2. Sep 3, 2025 · EUVD

    Updated

    ConnectWise-Password-Encryption-Utility.exe in ConnectWise Risk Assessment allows an attacker to extract a hardcoded AES decryption key via reverse engineering. This key is embedded in plaintext within the binary and used in cryptographic operations without dynamic key management. Once obtained the key can be used to decrypt CSV input files used for authenticated network scanning.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-4876

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-4876

    30-day exploitation probability 0.1%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-15721

    ConnectWise-Password-Encryption-Utility.exe in ConnectWise Risk Assessment allows an attacker to extract a hardcoded AES decryption key via reverse engineering. This key is embedded in plaintext within the binary and used in cryptographic operations without dynamic key management

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.