# CVE-2025-14038: Missing authorization in Hybrid Manager - Innovation

> Unauthenticated attackers can access gRPC endpoints to read sensitive data or cause denial of service due to missing authorization configurations.

- **Severity:** High 7.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Dec 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w5qr-6fc8-x8j9

## What is CVE-2025-14038?

CVE-2025-14038 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in EnterpriseDB Hybrid Manager - Innovation, published on 15 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

EDB Hybrid Manager contains a flaw that allows an unauthenticated attacker to directly access certain gRPC endpoints. This could allow an attacker to read potentially sensitive data or possibly cause a denial-of-service by writing malformed data to certain gRPC endpoints. This flaw has been remediated in EDB Hybrid Manager 1.3.3, and customers should consider upgrading to 1.3.3 as soon as possible.
The flaw is due to a misconfiguration in the Istio Gateway, which manages authentication and authorization for the affected endpoints. The security policy relies on an explicit definition of required permissions in the Istio Gateway configuration, and the affected endpoints were not defined in the configuration. This allowed requests to bypass both authentication and authorization within a Hybrid Manager service.
All versions of Hybrid Manager - LTS should be upgraded to 1.3.3, and all versions of Hybrid Manager - Innovation should be upgraded to 2025.12.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14038?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Enterprisedb Hybrid Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-14038?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14038 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-14038 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14038 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14038 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14038 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in EnterpriseDB Hybrid Manager - Innovation, published on 15 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14038 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: EnterpriseDB Hybrid Manager - Innovation. 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-2025-14038/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14038/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14038
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14038
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14038

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14038/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.