VulnerabilityAnalyzed

CVE-2025-46548

If you enable Basic Authentication in Pekko Management using the Java DSL, the authenticator may not be properly applied.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.75%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.75%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

If you enable Basic Authentication in Pekko Management using the Java DSL, the authenticator may not be properly applied. Users that rely on authentication instead of making sure the Management API ports are only available to trusted users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.1.1, which fixes this issue. Akka was affected by the same issue and has released the fix in version 1.6.1.

CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS: 0.75% probability · 53th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-287
Affected: apache/pekko management · akka/akka management
Source: security@apache.org

References

https://github.com/akka/akka-management/pull/1385Exploit, Issue Tracking
https://github.com/apache/pekko-management/pull/418Issue Tracking, Patch
https://lists.apache.org/thread/tnd84hj9w0ggjcft6cp12q67d5jzhp66Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/03/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.