# CVE-2025-14823: Certificate Signing Extension Returns Encrypted Values

> Unauthenticated users can retrieve encrypted configuration values via a client-facing endpoint in ScreenConnect's Certificate Signing Extension.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 18 Dec 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pxwx-c9g9-pm9p

## What is CVE-2025-14823?

CVE-2025-14823 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ConnectWise ScreenConnect, published on 18 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In deployments using the ScreenConnect™ Certificate Signing Extension, encrypted configuration values including an Azure Key Vault-related key, could be returned to unauthenticated users through a client-facing endpoint under certain conditions. The values remained encrypted and securely stored at rest; however, an encrypted representation could be exposed in client responses. Updating the Certificate Signing Extension to version 1.0.12 or higher ensures configuration handling occurs exclusively on the server side, preventing encrypted values from being transmitted to or rendered by client-side components.

Weakness: CWE-201 (Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14823?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Connectwise Screenconnect.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-14823?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14823 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-14823 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14823 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect

- [CVE-2024-1709](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1709/): ConnectWise ScreenConnect Authentication Bypass (critical 10.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-84869](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-84869/): ConnectWise ScreenConnect Improper Privilege Management and Missing Authorization (critical 9.9, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2024-1708](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1708/): ConnectWise ScreenConnect Path Traversal (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-3935](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3935/): ConnectWise ScreenConnect Improper Authentication (high 8.1, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-14265](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14265/): Improper server-side validation in ScreenConnect extension framework (critical 9.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14823 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14823 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ConnectWise ScreenConnect, published on 18 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-2025-14823 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ConnectWise ScreenConnect. 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-2025-14823/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14823/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14823
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14823
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14823

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14823/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.