CVE-2025-54471: NeuVector is shipping cryptographic material into its binary

Medium severity · published Oct 30, 2025

CVE-2025-54471

NeuVector is shipping cryptographic material into its binary

6.5

CVSS

0.3%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

NeuVector used a hard-coded cryptographic key embedded in the source code. At compilation time, the key value was replaced with the secret key value and used to encrypt sensitive configurations when NeuVector stores the data.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

Low

User interaction

None

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 19% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

neuvector · SUSE

5.3.0 before 5.4.7; 0.0.0-20230727023453-1c4957d53911 before 0.0.0-20251020133207-084a437033b4 · source: vendor

Affected product

neuvector

SUSE

All neuvector CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54471

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54471

bugzilla.suse.com

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-54471

github.com

https://github.com/neuvector/neuvector/security/advisories/GHSA-h773-7gf7-9m2x