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An issue was discovered in BMC Control-M 9.0.21.300. When...

Critical severity Unreviewed Published Aug 7, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 2, 2025

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

An issue was discovered in BMC Control-M 9.0.21.300. When Control-M Server has a database connection, it runs DBUStatus.exe frequently, which then calls dbu_connection_details.vbs with the username, password, database hostname, and port written in cleartext, which can be seen in event and process logs in two separate locations.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 7, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 7, 2025
Last updated Dec 2, 2025

Severity

Critical

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(3rd percentile)

Weaknesses

Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information

A process is invoked with sensitive command-line arguments, environment variables, or other elements that can be seen by other processes on the operating system. Learn more on MITRE.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2025-48709

GHSA ID

GHSA-cgj5-r57f-xw42

Source code

No known source code

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