# CVE-2025-6081: Pass-back attack in Konica Minolta bizhub 227 multifunctional printers

> An attacker can reconfigure the printer to use a malicious LDAP server, capturing plaintext credentials from the device's configured LDAP service.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 2 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-42rp-jq4q-vj3x

## What is CVE-2025-6081?

CVE-2025-6081 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Konica Minolta bizhub 227 Multifunction printers, published on 1 Jul 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Insufficiently Protected Credentials in LDAP in Konica Minolta bizhub 227 Multifunction printers version GCQ-Y3 or earlier allows an attacker can reconfigure the target device to use an external LDAP service controlled by the attacker. If an LDAP password is set on the target device, the attacker can force the target device to authenticate to the attacker controlled LDAP service. This will allow the attacker to capture the plaintext password of the configured LDAP service.

Weakness: CWE-522 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6081?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-6081?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-6081 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-6081 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6081 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-6081 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-6081 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Konica Minolta bizhub 227 Multifunction printers, published on 1 Jul 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6081 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Konica Minolta bizhub 227 Multifunction printers. 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-2025-6081/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6081/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6081
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6081
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-6081

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6081/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.