# CVE-2025-57788: Unauthorized API Access Risk

> Unauthenticated attackers can execute API calls without credentials, potentially accessing or modifying data despite RBAC limitations.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.9 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 11 Sep 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w78r-f8w4-qxcq

## What is CVE-2025-57788?

CVE-2025-57788 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Commvault CommCell, published on 20 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in a known login mechanism allows unauthenticated attackers to execute API calls without requiring user credentials. RBAC helps limit the exposure but does not eliminate risk.

Weakness: CWE-259 (Use of Hard-coded Password)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-57788?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Commvault Commvault.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-57788?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-57788 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-57788 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-57788 exists.

Public exploit code:

- Commvault Command-Line Argument Injection to Traversal Remote Code Execution (metasploit)
- Commvault Unauthenticated Password Disclosure (WT-2025-0047) (nuclei): http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-57788.yaml

## Other vulnerabilities in Commvault CommCell

- [CVE-2025-34028](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-34028/): Commvault Command Center Path Traversal (critical 9.3, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-3928](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3928/): Commvault Web Server Unspecified (high 8.7, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-18044](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-18044/): Command injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-77089](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-77089/): Command Center API Authentication Bypass (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2026-13737](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-13737/): Command Restriction Bypass (critical 9.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-57788 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-57788 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Commvault CommCell, published on 20 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-57788 exists.

Affected product: Commvault CommCell. 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-2025-57788/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-57788/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-57788
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57788
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-57788

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-57788/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.