CVE-2025-26701 Hardcoded credentials in Monitoring and Management
Default service account credentials in Percona PMM Server allow SSH access, root privilege escalation, and sensitive data exposure.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-26701?
CVE-2025-26701 is a critical vulnerability in Percona Monitoring and Management, published on 11 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Percona PMM Server (OVA) before 3.0.0-1.ova. The default service account credentials can lead to SSH access, use of Sudo to root, and sensitive data exposure. This is fixed in PMM2 2.42.0-1.ova, 2.43.0-1.ova, 2.43.1-1.ova, 2.43.2-1.ova, and 2.44.0-1.ova and in PMM3 3.0.0-1.ova and later.
Weakness: CWE-1393
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-26701?
How do I fix CVE-2025-26701?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-26701 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-26701 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-26701 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-88vw-ggf5-3p2w.