# CVE-2025-6505: Auth bypass in Hybrid Data Pipeline

> Attackers can impersonate clients and gain unauthorized access by combining OAuth credentials from headers and parameters in Progress Hybrid Data Pipeline Server.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 29 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-27cj-57m4-xhm9

## What is CVE-2025-6505?

CVE-2025-6505 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Progress Software Hybrid Data Pipeline, published on 29 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Unauthorized access and impersonation can occur in versions 4.6.2.3226 and below of Progress Software's Hybrid Data Pipeline Server on Linux. This vulnerability allows attackers to combine credentials from different sources, potentially leading to client impersonation and unauthorized access.
 When OAuth Clients perform an OAuth handshake with the Hybrid Data Pipeline Server, the server accepts client credentials from both HTTP headers and request parameters.

Weakness: CWE-287 (Improper Authentication)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6505?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Progress Hybrid Data Pipeline.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-6505?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-6505 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-6505 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6505 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Progress Software Hybrid Data Pipeline

- [CVE-2025-6504](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6504/): Possibilities of IP Spoofing via X-Forwarded-For (XFF) Header (high 8.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-6505 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-6505 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Progress Software Hybrid Data Pipeline, published on 29 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6505 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Progress Software Hybrid Data Pipeline. 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-2025-6505/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6505/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6505
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6505
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-6505

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6505/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.