# CVE-2025-2600: Missing authorization in Remote Desktop Manager

> An authenticated user can bypass password policy restrictions to access elevated password variables in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-59v2-78g4-8w49

## What is CVE-2025-2600?

CVE-2025-2600 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager, published on 26 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Improper authorization in the variable component in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager on Windows allows an authenticated user to use the ELEVATED_PASSWORD variable even though not allowed by the "Allow password in variable policy". 

This issue affects Remote Desktop Manager versions from 2025.1.24 through 2025.1.25, and all versions up to 2024.3.29.

Weakness: CWE-285 (Improper Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2600?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-2600?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2600 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-2600 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2600 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager

- [CVE-2026-2590](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-2590/): Security feature bypass in Remote Desktop Manager (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-6057](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6057/): Auth bypass in Remote Desktop Manager (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-6593](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6593/): Missing authorization in Remote Desktop Manager (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-5765](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5765/): Missing authorization in Remote Desktop Manager (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-4373](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4373/): Missing authorization in Remote Desktop Manager (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-2600 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-2600 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager, published on 26 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2600 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager. 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-2025-2600/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2600/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2600
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2600
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-2600

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2600/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.