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🛡️ CVE-2025-1688

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1394 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Milestone Systems has discovered a

security vulnerability in Milestone XProtect installer that resets system

configuration password after the upgrading from older versions using specific

installers.

The system configuration

password is an additional, optional protection that is enabled on the

Management Server.

To mitigate the issue, we highly recommend updating system configuration password via GUI with a standard procedure.

Any system upgraded with

2024 R1 or 2024 R2 release installer is vulnerable to this issue.

Systems upgraded from 2023

R3 or older with version 2025 R1 and newer are not affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-1688 is classified as CWE-1394: Use of Default Cryptographic Key. The product uses a default cryptographic key for potentially critical functionality.

Affected software

CVE-2025-1688 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 15 April 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

supportcommunity.milestonesys.com

Other advisories for this package

unknown has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-1394: Use of Default Cryptographic Key) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-1394
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-04-15
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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