CVE-2025-22273
CVE-2025-22273 — Lack of rate-limiting in password change mechanism in CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager
Application does not limit the number or frequency of user interactions, such as the number of incoming requests. At the "/EPMUI/VfManager.asmx/ChangePassword" endpoint it is possible to perform a brute force attack on the current password in use. This issue affects CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager in SaaS version 24.7.1. The status of other versions is unknown. After multiple attempts to contact the vendor we did not receive any answer.
Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, CERT-PL
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Unreported
no source claims exploitation
EPSS
1%
chance of exploitation in 30 days
CVSS base
9.3
CRITICAL
CISA SSVC assessment
Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.
Exploitation
None
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
Yes
can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Total
partial · total control of the vulnerable component
Affected scope
The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.
Vendors (1)
Products (1)
Every base score collected
Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.
| Score | Version | Severity | Expl. | Impact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.3 | CVSS 4.0 | CRITICAL | — | — | cvelistV5 |
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-770
Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.
- T1498.001Network Denial of Service: Direct Network Flood
- T1499Endpoint Denial of Service
- T1499.003Endpoint Denial of Service: Application Exhaustion Flood
Detection
Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not rules we have tested.
- Search application, proxy, and WAF logs for requests touching /EPMUI/VfManager.asmx/ChangePassword.
References
3 on the record
- cert.pl/en/posts/2025/02/CVE-2025-22270/
third-party-advisory
- cert.pl/posts/2025/02/CVE-2025-22270/
third-party-advisory
- docs.cyberark.com/epm/24.7.1/en/content/resources/_topnav/cc_home.htm
product
Elsewhere on this site
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.