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CVE-2025-6545

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-6545 is a critical Improper Input Validation vulnerability in the pbkdf2 library, specifically affecting versions 3.0.10 through 3.1.2, which allows for Signature Spoofing. With a CVSS score of 9.1, this vulnerability presents a low-complexity attack vector that can lead to high integrity and confidentiality impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Https://Npmjs.Com/Pbkdf2Pbkdf2
>= 3.0.10, <= 3.1.2CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

9.1CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
LOW
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
HIGH
SS Integrity
HIGH
SS Availability
HIGH
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 6th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (28)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: pbkdf2Fixed in: 3.1.3
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer Hub 1.7Fixed in: rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9:sha256:aa3c5b50c65aee51b932fafcbf479ce54f15496cffc2744860bd9e135cce815c
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.19Fixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-db-migration-rhel9:sha256:5aa846a80b2fe91a9eb3ea20496ae4cdfc1f1b4d59708a320d947230cd5287c6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.0Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel9:sha256:42de033cb085879e97b82ac80ba5df78f568e9bd1c16dd3ce8a962c90954dc2f
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.2Fixed in: rhtas/rekor-search-ui-rhel9:sha256:fe31830df2d99359749cb86cd1ac2f32fcc3de07aae427d2f2cd3998d31d2833
View patch
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: node-pbkdf2 (noble)Fixed in: 3.1.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: node-pbkdf2 (bionic)Fixed in: 3.0.14-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: node-pbkdf2 (focal)Fixed in: 3.0.16-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: node-pbkdf2 (jammy)Fixed in: 3.1.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-db-migration-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel9
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2Fixed in: io.apicurio-apicurio-registry
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Dev SpacesFixed in: devspaces/dashboard-rhel9
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache Kafka 2Fixed in: com.github.streamshub-console
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-console-plugin-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-api-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift PipelinesFixed in: openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-api-rhel9
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Integration Camel K 1Fixed in: io.apicurio-apicurio-registry
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-console
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift ServerlessFixed in: openshift-serverless-1/kn-backstage-plugins-eventmesh-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 3Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/kiali-operator-bundle
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 3Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 3Fixed in: openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9-operator
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-console-rhel9
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7Fixed in: io.apicurio-apicurito
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7Fixed in: io.syndesis-syndesis-parent

Vendor Advisories (3)

ubuntuUSN-8452-1

pbkdf2 vulnerability

Jun 18, 2026
npmGHSA-h7cp-r72f-jxh6critical

pbkdf2 returns predictable uninitialized/zero-filled memory for non-normalized or unimplemented algos

Jun 23, 2025
redhatCVE-2025-6545Important

pbkdf2: pbkdf2 silently returns predictable key material

Jun 23, 2025

References

github.com / browserify/pbkdf2/commit/9699045c37a07f8319cfb8d44e2ff4252d7a7078
github.com / browserify/pbkdf2/commit/e3102a8cd4830a3ac85cd0dd011cc002fdde33bb
github.com / browserify/pbkdf2/security/advisories/GHSA-h7cp-r72f-jxh6