CVE-2025-59015 Insufficient Entropy in Password Generation

What is CVE-2025-59015?

CVE-2025-59015 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Typo3 Typo3, published on 9 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A deterministic three‑character prefix in the Password Generation component of TYPO3 CMS versions 12.0.0–12.4.36 and 13.0.0–13.4.17 reduces entropy, allowing attackers to carry out brute‑force attacks more quickly.

Weakness: CWE-331

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-59015?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including typo3/cms-core. It affects 1 product.

Products include Typo3 Typo3.

How do I fix CVE-2025-59015?

Upgrade typo3/cms-core to a fixed version for your release line: 12.4.37 or 13.4.18.

Is CVE-2025-59015 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-59015 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2011-3583 Typo3 SQL injection due to faulty prepared statements Critical 9.8
• CVE-2011-4628 Typo3 Authentication Bypass Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-24814 Persisted Cross-Site Scripting in Frontend Rendering in typo3 High 8.8
• CVE-2021-41113 Cross-Site-Request-Forgery in Backend URI Handling in Typo3 High 8.8

All Typo3 Typo3 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-p5jq-5383-qvc7.