# CVE-2025-11492: HTTP Configuration and Encryption in Transit

> An on-path attacker can intercept or modify agent-server traffic if HTTP is used instead of HTTPS, requiring an upgrade to enforce secure communications.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4676-8cx2-xvgq

## What is CVE-2025-11492?

CVE-2025-11492 is a critical vulnerability in ConnectWise Automate, published on 16 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the ConnectWise Automate Agent, communications could be configured to use HTTP instead of HTTPS. In such cases, an on-path threat actor with a man-in-the-middle network position could intercept, modify, or replay agent-server traffic. Additionally, the encryption method used to obfuscate some communications over the HTTP channel is updated in the Automate 2025.9 patch to enforce HTTPS for all agent communications.

Weakness: CWE-319 (Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11492?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Connectwise Automate.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-11492?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11492 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-11492 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11492 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- Writeup and code for CVE-2025-11492, CVE-2025-11493 - RCE in ConnctWise Automate RMM via Adversary-in-the-Middle (github_poc): https://github.com/synap5e/connectwise-automate-AiTM-rce

## Other vulnerabilities in ConnectWise Automate

- [CVE-2021-35066](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-35066/): XML external entity in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-15027](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15027/): Auth bypass in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-9089](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-9089/): Supply chain in Automate (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-11493](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11493/): Self-Update Verification Mechanism Process in ConnectWise Automate (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2020-15838](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15838/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-11492 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-11492 is a critical vulnerability in ConnectWise Automate, published on 16 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11492 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ConnectWise Automate. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11492/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11492/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11492
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11492
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-11492

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11492/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.