# CVE-2025-35041: Airship AI Acropolis MFA insufficient rate limiting

> Attackers with valid credentials can brute-force MFA codes due to insufficient rate limiting, leading to account takeover.

- **Severity:** High 7.7 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 30 Sep 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9mjj-m5vm-p4jh

## What is CVE-2025-35041?

CVE-2025-35041 is a high-severity vulnerability in Airship AI Acropolis, published on 22 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Airship AI Acropolis allows unlimited MFA attempts for 15 minutes after a user has logged in with valid credentials. A remote attacker with valid credentials could brute-force the 6-digit MFA code. Fixed in 10.2.35, 11.0.21, and 11.1.9.

Weakness: CWE-307 (Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-35041?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Airship.ai Acropolis.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-35041?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-35041 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-35041 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-35041 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Airship AI Acropolis

- [CVE-2025-35042](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-35042/): Airship AI Acropolis default credentials (critical 9.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-35041 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-35041 is a high-severity vulnerability in Airship AI Acropolis, published on 22 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-35041 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Airship AI Acropolis. 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-2025-35041/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-35041/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-35041
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-35041
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-35041

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-35041/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.