# CVE-2025-2402: Hard-coded password for object store of KNIME Business Hub

> An unauthenticated remote attacker can use a hard-coded password to read, modify, or disrupt data in the KNIME Business Hub object store.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 31 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 31 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-v5p7-3387-gpmg

## What is CVE-2025-2402?

CVE-2025-2402 is a high-severity vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub, published on 31 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A hard-coded, non-random password for the object store (minio) of KNIME Business Hub in all versions except the ones listed below allows an unauthenticated remote attacker in possession of the password to read and manipulate swapped jobs or read and manipulate in- and output data of active jobs. It is also possible to cause a denial-of-service of most functionality of KNIME Business Hub by writing large amounts of data to the object store directly. 

There are no viable workarounds therefore we strongly recommend to update to one of the following versions of KNIME Business Hub: 

  *  1.13.2 or later 

  *  1.12.3 or later 

  *  1.11.3 or later 

  *  1.10.3 or later

Weakness: CWE-259 (Use of Hard-coded Password)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2402?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Knime Business Hub.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-2402?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2402 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-2402 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2402 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in KNIME Business Hub

- [CVE-2025-2787](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2787/): Ingress-nginx vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2024-6598](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6598/): Denial-of-service on KNIME Business Hub when certain jobs are executed (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-14262](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14262/): Jobs can be saved as workflows with wrong permissions on KNIME Business Hub (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2025-11240](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11240/): Open redirect vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2025-3019](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3019/): Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in KNIME Business Hub web pages (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-2402 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-2402 is a high-severity vulnerability in KNIME Business Hub, published on 31 Mar 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-2025-2402 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: KNIME Business Hub. 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-2025-2402/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2402/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2402
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2402
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-2402

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2402/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.