CVE-2024-12225 Io.quarkus:quarkus-security-webauthn: quarkus webauthn unexpected authentication bypass
Attackers can bypass authentication and log in as existing users by accessing default WebAuthn endpoints when custom endpoints are configured.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12225?
CVE-2024-12225 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Red Hat build of Quarkus, published on 6 May 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability was found in Quarkus in the quarkus-security-webauthn module. The Quarkus WebAuthn module publishes default REST endpoints for registering and logging users in while allowing developers to provide custom REST endpoints. When developers provide custom REST endpoints, the default endpoints remain accessible, potentially allowing attackers to obtain a login cookie that has no corresponding user in the Quarkus application or, depending on how the application is written, could correspond to an existing user that has no relation with the current attacker, allowing anyone to log in as an existing user by just knowing that user's user name.
Weakness: CWE-288
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12225?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Quarkus Quarkus.
How do I fix CVE-2024-12225?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12225 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2024-12225 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12225 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat build of Quarkus
- CVE-2022-4116 Code injection in quarkus dev ui config editor
- CVE-2022-2466 Quarkus does not terminate HTTP requests header context
- CVE-2026-39852 Quarkus authorization bypass via semicolon path normalization inconsistency
- CVE-2022-0981 Privilege escalation in quarkus
- CVE-2023-6267 Quarkus: json payload getting processed prior to security checks when rest resources are used with annotations.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jw23-2xqx-f9f7.