# CVE-2025-44957: Auth bypass in SmartZone

> Attackers can bypass authentication in Ruckus SmartZone using valid API keys and crafted HTTP headers, requiring an upgrade to secure the network management system.

- **Severity:** High 8.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **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:** 4 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 3 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fwg7-h82p-gx66

## What is CVE-2025-44957?

CVE-2025-44957 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in RUCKUS SmartZone, published on 4 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Ruckus SmartZone (SZ) before 6.1.2p3 Refresh Build allows authentication bypass via a valid API key and crafted HTTP headers.

Weakness: CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-44957?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Commscope Ruckus Network Director, Commscope Ruckus Smartzone Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-44957?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-44957 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-44957 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-44957 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in RUCKUS SmartZone

- [CVE-2025-44961](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44961/): Command injection in SmartZone (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2025-67304](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-67304/): Hardcoded credentials in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-67305](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-67305/): Hardcoded credentials in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-44963](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44963/): Hardcoded credentials in Network Director (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2025-44955](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44955/): Hardcoded credentials in Network Director (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-44957 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-44957 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in RUCKUS SmartZone, published on 4 Aug 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-2025-44957 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: RUCKUS SmartZone. 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-2025-44957/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44957/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-44957
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-44957
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-44957

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-44957/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.