CVE-2025-9970 Application credential stored in clear text in memory
Medium 5.7
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-9970 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-9970 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ABB MConfig, published on 8 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9970 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: ABB MConfig. 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-2025-9970/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9970/index.md)
Attackers can read application credentials stored in clear text in memory, potentially leading to unauthorized access to ABB MConfig.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-9970?
CVE-2025-9970 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ABB MConfig, published on 8 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory vulnerability in ABB MConfig.This issue affects MConfig: through 1.4.9.21.
Weakness: CWE-316
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9970?
How do I fix CVE-2025-9970?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-9970 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-9970 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9970 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jrwf-cch6-5737.