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🛡️ CVE-2025-28381 — cosmos

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-526 NVD
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Description

A credential leak in OpenC3 COSMOS before v6.0.2 allows attackers to access service credentials as environment variables stored in all containers.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-28381 is classified as CWE-526: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable. The product uses an environment variable to store unencrypted sensitive information.

Affected software

CVE-2025-28381 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • cosmos
  • openc3

Timeline and source

Published on 13 June 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com
github.com
openc3.com
visionspace.com

Other advisories for this package

cosmos 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-526: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-526
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cosmos
openc3

Similar Threats

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