CVE-2025-23180 Ribbon Communications - CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
High 8.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-23180 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-23180 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ribbon Communications Apollo 9608, published on 29 Apr 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-2025-23180 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Ribbon Communications Apollo 9608. 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-2025-23180/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23180/index.md)
Attackers can exploit unnecessary privileges in Ribbon Apollo 9608 to escalate their access rights within the network device.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-23180?
CVE-2025-23180 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ribbon Communications Apollo 9608, published on 29 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Weakness: CWE-250
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23180?
How do I fix CVE-2025-23180?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-23180 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-23180 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23180 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j55m-95wq-jp26.