# CVE-2025-3426: Use of default hardcoded credentials

> Attackers can reverse-engineer the application to extract hardcoded credentials, enabling unauthorized access and privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:P/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Green`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 10 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g6m7-g8x5-2xv4

## What is CVE-2025-3426?

CVE-2025-3426 is a high-severity vulnerability in Philips Advanced Visualization Workspace, published on 7 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

We observed that Intellispace Portal binaries doesn’t have any protection mechanisms to prevent reverse engineering. Specifically, the app’s code is not obfuscated, and no measures are in place to protect against decompilation, disassembly, or debugging. As a result, attackers can reverse-engineer the application to gain insights into its internal workings, which can potentially lead to the discovery of sensitive information, business logic flaws, and other vulnerabilities.
Utilizing this flaw, the attacker was able to identify the Hardcoded credentials from PortalUsersDatabase.dll, which contains .NET remoting definition. Inside the namespace PortalUsersDatabase, the class Users contains the functions CreateAdmin and CreateService that are used to initialize accounts in the Portal service. Both CreateAdmin and CreateService functions contain a hardcoded encrypted password along with its respective salt that are set with the function SetInitialPasswordAndSalt.
This issue affects IntelliSpace Portal: 12 and prior; Advanced Visualization Workspace: 15.

Weakness: CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3426?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-3426?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3426 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-3426 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-3426 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-3426 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-3426 is a high-severity vulnerability in Philips Advanced Visualization Workspace, published on 7 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-2025-3426 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Philips Advanced Visualization Workspace. 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-2025-3426/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3426/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-3426
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3426
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-3426

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3426/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.