Iron Mountain EnVision CVE-2025-9588
CRITICALAttack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach exposed enVision endpoint
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DeliveryCraft request with shell metacharacters
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ExploitInject into unsanitized OS command
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ExecutionAchieve remote code execution
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ImpactFull host compromise
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization OS command sanitization, avoid shell exec
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The description states OS command injection with no feature toggle or configuration precondition named, and the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) indicates remote unauthenticated exploitation against reachable installations. The practical limiting factor is network exposure: an attacker must be able to reach a vulnerable enVision interface/endpoint, so installations behind segmentation, VPN, or not internet-facing are materially harder to reach. Exploitation is bounded to deployments running enVision versions before build 250563; patched builds are not affected. No user interaction or authentication is required per the vector. |
| Impact | The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, base 9.8) describes a maximally severe, network-reachable, unauthenticated OS command injection with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact - a textbook critical finding. However, the real-world signals temper this: the EPSS score is only 0.32% (55th percentile), indicating low modeled probability of exploitation in the near term, and there is no CISA KEV listing and no identified public exploit code. There is therefore a divergence between the theoretical severity (very high) and the observed/predicted exploitation activity (low), which is common for newly disclosed flaws in lower-footprint enterprise products that have not yet attracted public exploit development. Reporting originates from Turkey's national CSIRT (USOM/TR-CERT) and a VulDB advisory, which lends credibility to the disclosure but does not independently confirm exploitation. Net assessment: this is a genuinely dangerous flaw that warrants prompt patching wherever Iron Mountain enVision is deployed, but absent KEV/POC/high-EPSS it is a patch-promptly priority rather than an emergency drop-everything item for most organizations. No CVSS-vs-description conflict was observed; the AV:N/PR:N vector is consistent with the OS command injection description. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote, unauthenticated attacker sends a crafted request to an exposed Iron Mountain enVision interface, injecting shell metacharacters into an input that is passed unsanitized to an OS command. The injected command executes with the privileges of the enVision service, giving the attacker arbitrary command execution on the host. No public proof-of-concept exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the low attack complexity (AC:L) means no special timing or environmental conditions are needed once a vulnerable endpoint is reachable. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv2 – Oct 18, 2026
Unauthenticated OS command injection in Iron Mountain EnVision builds prior to 250563 allows a remote attacker who can reach a vulnerable interface to execute arbitrary operating-system commands on the archiving server, giving full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (CVSS 3.1 base 9.8, AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). The flaw is a classic CWE-78 failure to neutralize special elements before passing data to a shell, and because the affected platform stores retained email and content plus credentials for connected mail systems, host-level command execution is a serious enterprise data-exposure risk rather than a contained application bug. Exploitation status at time of analysis: no public exploit identified and no CISA KEV listing; EPSS is 0.32% (55th percentile), indicating low predicted exploitation activity, which should be weighed against the niche, high-value nature of the target and the trivial attack complexity implied by the vector.
Earlier versions of this analysis (1)
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Iron Mountain Archiving Services Inc. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
Upgrade EnVision to build 250563 or later - the affected-version boundary stated in USOM bulletin TR-25-0285 (https://www.usom.gov.tr/bildirim/tr-25-0285) makes 250563 the first non-vulnerable build, so confirm the deployed build number in the product's version/about panel rather than assuming an update was applied. Until the upgrade is complete, reduce reachability, since the practical exploitation constraint is network access to the vulnerable interface: block inbound access to EnVision management/web ports at the perimeter and allow only known administrative networks or VPN address pools (trade-off: remote users and integrations must be re-routed, and mail-connector traffic may need explicit allow-listing). Fronting the interface with an authenticating reverse proxy or WAF adds a pre-auth gate and can catch shell-metacharacter payloads, but signature coverage for this specific endpoint is unverified, so treat it as defense in depth, not a fix. After patching, rotate credentials for accounts the EnVision service uses toward mail systems and archive storage, and review web/application logs for shell metacharacters or unexpected child processes spawned by the service account, since successful exploitation would have run in that context. No workaround short of upgrading fully removes the flaw, and no vendor statement confirms a configuration toggle that disables the vulnerable path.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is CWE-78, Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command, meaning user-supplied input reaching a network-facing feature is concatenated into a command string handed to a shell interpreter without adequate escaping or allow-listing, so shell metacharacters (;, |, $(), backticks) let an attacker append arbitrary commands. The CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N describes a remotely reachable, low-complexity path requiring neither credentials nor user interaction, which points to a pre-authentication endpoint on the enVision web/management surface rather than an admin-only workflow. CPE data (cpe:2.3:a:ironmountain:envision:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) does not constrain a version range, so the only reliable affected-version boundary is the advisory statement that all builds before 250563 are vulnerable. EnVision is an enterprise archiving and records-management platform, typically deployed on-premises and integrated with mail and content sources, so commands executed in the application's service context can reach the archive store, local configuration, and stored integration credentials; the vector's High ratings for all three impact categories are consistent with that position. Turkish USOM advisories (TR-25-0285) and a VulDB entry are the only public references, and no root-cause detail or vulnerable parameter has been published, which limits precise detection guidance.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OS command injection reachable remotely without authentication or interaction (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); arbitrary command execution yields full C/I/A impact on the host, scope unchanged.
Primary rating from NVD.
CVSS VectorNVD
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionNVD
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Iron Mountain Archiving Services Inc. EnVision allows Command Injection.This issue affects enVision: before 250563.
Executive ViewAI
Iron Mountain EnVision archiving servers (builds prior to 250563) are exposed to an unauthenticated remote command execution flaw that could allow an attacker to fully compromise the host and access retained email, content, and connected mail-system credentials. Because the platform centralizes sensitive communications and credentials, a successful exploit could cause enterprise-wide data exposure and operational disruption. A fixed build (250563) is available, but until it is deployed, leadership should treat this as a high-priority containment and monitoring event.
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Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
OS command injection occurs when an application passes unsanitized user input directly into system shell commands.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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Authenticated SQL injection in Iron Mountain enVision builds prior to 260655 allows a network-based attacker holding a l
EMC RSA enVision 4.x before 4.1 Patch 4 does not properly restrict the number of failed authentication attempts, which m
Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in EMC RSA enVision 4.x before 4.1 Patch 4 allow remote authenticated users to ex
Directory traversal vulnerability in EMC RSA enVision 4.x before 4.1 Patch 4 allows remote authenticated users to have a
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in EMC RSA enVision 4.x before 4.1 Patch 4 allow remote attackers to
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