What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-70041?

CVE-2025-70041 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical). CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.0%.

How to fix or mitigate CVE-2025-70041?

Within 24 hours: Identify all ThermaKube master instances in production and development environments; rotate all hardcoded credentials immediately; review access logs for suspicious activity. Within 7 days: Implement network segmentation to restrict ThermaKube master access to authorized personnel only; deploy enhanced monitoring for authentication attempts and administrative actions. Within 30 days: Evaluate migration to patched version once available; conduct full security audit of affected systems; implement secrets management solution to eliminate hardcoded credentials enterprise-wide.

CVE-2025-70041

CRITICAL

Use of Hard-coded Password (CWE-259)

2026-03-11 cve@mitre.org

Authentication Bypass

9.8

CVSS 3.1

CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Lifecycle Timeline

Re-analysis Queued

Apr 27, 2026 - 19:22 vuln.today

cvss_changed

Analysis Generated

Mar 12, 2026 - 22:07 vuln.today

CVE Published

Mar 11, 2026 - 21:16 nvd

CRITICAL 9.8

DescriptionNVD

An issue pertaining to CWE-259: Use of Hard-coded Password was discovered in oslabs-beta ThermaKube master.

AnalysisAI

Hardcoded password in ThermaKube Kubernetes monitoring.

Technical ContextAI

CWE-259.

Affected ProductsAI

ThermaKube

RemediationAI

Change credentials.

CVE-2025-70041 vulnerability details – vuln.today

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CVE-2025-70041

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