# CVE-2025-60794: @perfood/couch-auth may expose session tokens, passwords

> Attackers can extract session tokens and passwords from memory dumps due to lack of explicit clearing in the couch-auth library.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 20 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-62vx-hpcr-m9ch

## What is CVE-2025-60794?

CVE-2025-60794 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Nov 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Session tokens and passwords in couch-auth 0.21.2 are stored in JavaScript objects and remain in memory without explicit clearing in src/user.ts lines 700-707. This creates a window of opportunity for sensitive data extraction through memory dumps, debugging tools, or other memory access techniques, potentially leading to session hijacking.

Weakness: CWE-316 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-60794?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including @perfood/couch-auth. It affects 1 product.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `@perfood/couch-auth` | npm | All versions to 0.21.2 | None |
| `@perfood/couch-auth` | npm | All versions to 0.21.2 | None |

Products: Perfood Couchauth.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-60794?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-60794 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-60794 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-60794 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2023-39655](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-39655/): CouchAuth host header injection vulnerability leaks the password reset token (critical 9.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-60794 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-60794 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Nov 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-2025-60794 exists.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- @perfood/couch-auth (npm): affected all versions up to 0.21.2; no fix listed
- @perfood/couch-auth (npm): affected all versions up to 0.21.2; no fix listed

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-2025-60794/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-60794/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-60794
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-60794
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-60794

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-60794/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.