# CVE-2025-12680: Brocade SANnav DataBase plaintext password is logged in failover logs (CVE-2025-12680)

> An authenticated admin can read plaintext database passwords from failover logs in Brocade SANnav, exposing sensitive credentials.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.0 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Feb 2026
- **Updated:** 3 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5rj2-f4xf-8m9q

## What is CVE-2025-12680?

CVE-2025-12680 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Brocade SANnav, published on 2 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Brocade SANnav before Brocade SANnav 2.4.0b logs database passwords in clear text in the standby SANnav server, after disaster recovery failover.  The vulnerability could allow a remote authenticated attacker with admin privilege able to access the SANnav logs or the supportsave to read the database password.

Weakness: CWE-312 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information), CWE-256 (Plaintext Storage of a Password)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12680?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Broadcom Sannav.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-12680?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12680 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-12680 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12680 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Brocade SANnav

- [CVE-2022-2068](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2068/): The c_rehash script allows command injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-28163](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-28163/): SQL injection in Brocade SANNav (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-15377](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15377/): Server-side request forgery in Brocade SANnav (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-28165](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-28165/): Missing authorization in Brocade SANNav (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-12772](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12772/): Plaintext Switch admin login password is seen in Brocade SANnav support save (high 8.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-12680 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-12680 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Brocade SANnav, published on 2 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12680 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Brocade SANnav. 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-2025-12680/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12680/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12680
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12680
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-12680

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12680/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.