Attack ChainAIDerived
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AccessGain high-privilege local access to EM host
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DeliveryRead credential store from local filesystem
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ExploitExfiltrate password hash data
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ExecutionPerform offline dictionary or brute-force cracking
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PersistRecover plaintext admin passwords
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ImpactReuse credentials for lateral movement
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A04:2025 - Cryptographic Failures
ASVS 5.0
V11 - Cryptography Irreversible hash functions
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires local access to the Control-M/Enterprise Manager server with high operating-system or application privileges (PR:H per CVSS 4.0) sufficient to read the credential store - this is not a remotely triggerable flaw. The attack condition AT:P further requires that the attacker successfully exfiltrate the hash data before any offline cracking is possible. The vulnerability is limited to unsupported versions 9.0.20.x and potentially earlier; organizations running current supported BMC Control-M releases are not listed as affected. There is no network-facing exploitation path, no user interaction component, and no lateral effect on subsequent systems (SC:N/SI:N/SA:N). What limits exploitation: the requirement for pre-existing high-privilege local access means this is a post-compromise technique, not an initial access vector; the unsupported-version constraint further reduces the realistic exposed population. |
| Impact | The CVSS 4.0 score of 5.6 (Medium) appropriately reflects the constrained exploitation path: AV:L restricts initial access to local or adjacent systems, PR:H requires admin-level credentials to reach the credential store, and AT:P signals that specific attack conditions - namely, successful exfiltration of hash data - must be met before the weakness is exercisable. These three factors together mean this vulnerability is a post-compromise amplifier, not an initial access vector. There is no CISA KEV listing and no reported public proof-of-concept, so exploitation is limited to threat actors who have already deeply compromised the environment. EPSS data was not provided, but given the privilege and access prerequisites, real-world exploitation probability is assessed as low. Critically, affected versions (9.0.20.x and earlier) are officially unsupported by BMC, which both reduces the installed base still running them and eliminates the possibility of a vendor hotfix - organizations that have not upgraded face permanent exposure for these versions. The primary real-world risk is credential reuse: if Control-M admin passwords recovered offline match credentials used elsewhere in the enterprise, the blast radius expands significantly. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who has already escalated to administrator-level access on the Control-M/Enterprise Manager host - whether through a separate vulnerability, phishing, or insider threat - extracts the application's credential store from the local filesystem. Using a GPU-accelerated offline cracking tool against the weakly-hashed entries, the attacker recovers plaintext passwords for Control-M accounts and leverages any credential reuse to pivot into other enterprise systems or escalate further. No public proof-of-concept has been identified, but the technique requires only standard offline cracking tooling once hash data is obtained. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jul 01, 2026
Weak password hash storage in BMC Control-M/Enterprise Manager exposes account credentials to offline recovery attacks if an attacker gains access to the credential database. Affected are unsupported versions 9.0.20.x and potentially earlier legacy releases, meaning no vendor patch will be issued for these branches - upgrade to a supported release is the only vendor-endorsed remediation. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:L/PR:H/AT:P) confirms exploitation requires local, high-privilege access and specific attack conditions, significantly constraining real-world risk; no public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
The primary and only vendor-endorsed remediation is to upgrade Control-M/Enterprise Manager from the unsupported 9.0.20.x branch to a currently supported release that implements adequately strong password hashing; consult the BMC knowledge article at https://bmcapps.my.site.com/casemgmt/sc_KnowledgeArticle?sfdcid=kA3cx000000GFeDCAW&type=Solution for the recommended target version. No patch will be backported to unsupported versions. For organizations that cannot immediately upgrade, compensating controls should focus on reducing the likelihood of credential data exfiltration: restrict local and administrative access to the Control-M/EM server to only explicitly authorized accounts (trade-off: operational friction for admins), enable file-integrity monitoring on directories containing credential or configuration data to detect unauthorized reads (trade-off: alert volume), and enforce network segmentation preventing lateral movement from the EM host. Additionally, audit whether Control-M admin account passwords are reused across other enterprise systems - if so, rotate those credentials proactively, as a successful offline crack would expose those systems too.
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Control-M/Enterprise Manager is BMC Software's centralized workload automation and job scheduling management platform, identified via CPE cpe:2.3:a:bmc:control-m/enterprise_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. The root cause is classified as CWE-328 (Use of Weak Hash), meaning the application hashes account passwords using a cryptographically inadequate algorithm or insufficiently hardened configuration - such as MD5, SHA-1 without salting, or iterations insufficient to resist GPU-accelerated brute force. Unlike plaintext storage, weak hashing is a second-order vulnerability: it matters only after credential data is exfiltrated, at which point the attacker can mount offline dictionary or rainbow-table attacks to recover plaintext passwords faster than a strong algorithm (bcrypt, scrypt, Argon2) would permit. The local attack vector and high-privilege requirement in the CVSS 4.0 score confirm that the credential store is not directly network-accessible and requires elevated OS or application-level rights to read.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Local vector and high privileges required to access credential store; confidentiality-only impact with no integrity or availability effect.
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CVSS VectorVendor: airbus
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1DescriptionCVE.org
The Control-M/Enterprise Manager uses weak protections for stored hashes of account passwords, potentially allowing offline password recovery attacks if credential data is obtained by an attacker. This vulnerability affects Control-M/Enterprise Manager unsupported versions 9.0.20.x and potentially earlier unsupported versions
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