Password disclosure via weak MD5 hashes
Published Nov 14, 2025 · Updated Nov 17, 2025
Weak password hashing in AVEVA Edge 2023 R2 and earlier allows local users to recover passwords from project or offline-cache files. Edge Project and Edge Offline Cache files store app-native or Active Directory passwords as MD5 hashes suitable for computational brute-forcing. The attacker must already have read access to one of these files; recovery exposes the corresponding user credentials.
Summary
What happened
Weak password hashing in AVEVA Edge 2023 R2 and earlier allows local users to recover passwords from project or offline-cache files. Edge Project and Edge Offline Cache files store app-native or Active Directory passwords as MD5 hashes suitable for computational brute-forcing. The attacker must already have read access to one of these files; recovery exposes the corresponding user credentials.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-9317
- Published
- Nov 14, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 17, 2025
- Vendor
- AVEVA
- Product
- AVEVA Edge
- Classifications
- CWE-327, T1110.002, T1552.001
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 14, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=Versions 2023 R2
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