CVE-2025-3838: Improper Authorization in the installer for the EOL OVA based connect component

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-04-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-327

Description

An Improper Authorization vulnerability was identified in the EOL OVA based connect component which is deployed for installation purposes in the customer internal network. Under certain conditions, this could allow a bad actor to gain unauthorized access to the local db containing weakly hashed credentials of the installer. This EOL component was deprecated in September 2023 with end of support extended till January 2024.

Affected products

Saviynt OVA based Connect: AlmaLinux-8.x_SC2.0-Client-2.0, AlmaLinux-8.x_SC2.0-Client-3.0, CentOS-7.x_SC2.0-Client-2.0, CentOS-7.x_SC2.0-Client-3.0, RHEL-8.x_SC2.0-Client-2.0, RHEL-8.x_SC2.0-Client-3.0

References

https://saviynt.com/trust-compliance-security

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