CVE-2025-65998: Apache Syncope: Default AES key used for internal password encryption
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Syncope
Vendor fix available · Affected: Apache Software Foundation Apache Syncope · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 45% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Apache Syncope can be configured to store the user password values in the internal database with AES encryption, though this is not the default option. When AES is configured, the default key value, hard-coded in the source code, is always used. This allows a malicious attacker, once obtained access to the internal database content, to reconstruct the original cleartext password values. This is not affecting encrypted plain attributes, whose values are also stored using AES encryption. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.0.15 / 4.0.3, which fix this issue.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Apache Software Foundation · Apache Syncopefrom 2.1 up to and including 2.1.14; from 3.0 up to and including 3.0.14; from 4.0 up to and including 4.0.2
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Published
- November 2025
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