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CVE-2025-54471: NeuVector is shipping cryptographic material into its binary

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-10-30 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-321

Description

NeuVector used a hard-coded cryptographic key embedded in the source code. At compilation time, the key value was replaced with the secret key value and used to encrypt sensitive configurations when NeuVector stores the data.

Affected products

• SUSE neuvector: from 5.3.0 before 5.4.7; from 0.0.0-20230727023453-1c4957d53911 before 0.0.0-20251020133207-084a437033b4 — fixed in 0.0.0-20251020133207-084a437033b4, 5.4.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SUSE neuvector 0.0.0-20251020133207-084a437033b4, 5.4.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-54471
• https://github.com/neuvector/neuvector/security/advisories/GHSA-h773-7gf7-9m2x

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