Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach Liderahenk management interface over network
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DeliverySubmit hard-coded default credentials
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ExploitBypass authentication
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ExecutionAccess central management console
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ImpactRead or modify endpoint policy/configuration
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Credential externalization
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Persistence, Credential Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | No special conditions - remote unauthenticated exploitation against default configurations of Liderahenk, since the credentials are hard-coded and shipped with the product (CVSS PR:N/UI:N/AC:L). The only practical limiting factor is network reachability of the Liderahenk management service: the attacker must be able to reach its network interface (AV:N), so deployments where the management port is confined to an isolated administrative segment or VPN are materially harder to reach. No specific non-default feature toggle, platform, or user interaction is required. |
| Impact | Signals are consistent and point to genuine priority. The CVSS 3.1 vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N (base 9.1, Critical) describes remote, network-reachable exploitation with low complexity and no privileges or user interaction - a near-worst-case access profile - with high confidentiality and integrity impact but no availability impact, matching an authentication bypass rather than a crash/DoS. Hard-coded credentials are inherently 'automatable' and trivially weaponizable once the values are known, which reasonably maps to an SSVC exploitation posture of at least 'poc'/high-automatable even though no formal SSVC decision was supplied. Counterbalancing this, EPSS was not provided, the flaw is NOT in CISA KEV, and no POC or active-exploitation evidence exists in the input, so there is no confirmation of widespread real-world exploitation yet - the elevated risk is driven by the credential-bypass nature and network exposure, not by observed attacks. Given the product's deployment in Turkish public-sector Linux fleets, any operator running a version before 3.5.5, even a mid-sized municipal or agency IT team, should treat internet- or LAN-exposed Liderahenk management interfaces as urgent to patch. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker with network access to a Liderahenk server (before 3.5.5) submits the software's hard-coded/default credentials to the management interface and is authenticated without any prior access, then reads or alters central endpoint-management policy and configuration for the managed Linux fleet. Because the credentials are static and identical across installations, exploitation is scriptable and requires no user interaction; no public exploit is identified at time of analysis, but the low complexity makes independent rediscovery of the credentials straightforward. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 26, 2026
Hard-coded credentials in TÜBİTAK BİLGEM's Liderahenk Linux endpoint management platform (all versions before 3.5.5) let a remote, unauthenticated attacker log in using built-in default/common username-password pairs, yielding an authentication bypass with high confidentiality and integrity impact. Because Liderahenk centrally administers fleets of Pardus/Linux clients, valid access to its management interface exposes managed-endpoint policies and configuration. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the flaw was reported by Turkey's national CERT (TR-CERT).
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: 3.5.5 - upgrade all Liderahenk installations to version 3.5.5 or later, which is the first release outside the affected 'before 3.5.5' range, per the TR-CERT advisory at https://siberguvenlik.gov.tr/guvenlik-bildirimleri/detay/tr-26-0916. Until the upgrade is applied, restrict network reachability of the Liderahenk management/server interface to trusted administrative networks or a VPN (blocking direct internet and untrusted-LAN access to its service ports), which mitigates the AV:N remote exposure but does not stop an insider or a compromised internal host; where the platform permits it, rotate or force-change any default/built-in account credentials and audit authentication logs for logins using known default usernames, accepting that hard-coded credentials may not be fully removable without the vendor fix. Because the flaw is a credential bypass, treat any pre-patch exposure as potential compromise and review managed-endpoint configuration for unauthorized changes.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Liderahenk is an open-source, TÜBİTAK BİLGEM-developed centralized management system (part of the Pardus/Turkish public-sector Linux ecosystem) used to administer, monitor, and apply policy to large numbers of Linux client endpoints, functionally comparable to directory/endpoint-management suites. The root cause is CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials): credentials embedded in the shipped software allow authentication with known default or common username/password values rather than operator-provisioned secrets. The single affected product is captured by CPE cpe:2.3:a:tübi̇tak_bi̇lgem_software_technologies_research_institute:liderahenk:*, and the vendor's 'Authentication Bypass' tagging aligns with credentials that are static across deployments and thus effectively public once identified.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Hard-coded credentials are network-reachable and trivially usable (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); bypass grants read/write to management data (C:H/I:H) with no inherent availability impact (A:N).
Primary rating from Vendor (TR-CERT).
CVSS VectorVendor: TR-CERT
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability in TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Software Technologies Research Institute Liderahenk allows Try Common or Default Usernames and Passwords.
This issue affects Liderahenk: before 3.5.5.
Executive ViewAI
Liderahenk endpoint management platform (all versions before 3.5.5) contains hard-coded credentials allowing remote, unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access to the central management console. Successful exploitation enables attackers to modify security policies, configurations, and deployments across the entire managed Linux fleet, compromising all connected Pardus/Linux endpoints. This represents a critical supply-chain risk to organizational infrastructure and regulatory compliance.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: (1) restrict network access to Liderahenk management interface using firewall rules and network segmentation; (2) enable comprehensive audit logging to detect authentication bypass attempts and unauthorized policy changes; (3) implement network-level certificate-based access controls if platform supports them; (4) monitor for anomalous configuration deployments and policy modifications across managed endpoints; (5) prioritize upgrade to version 3.5.5 immediately upon vendor release.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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