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CVE-2025-23215

pmd pmd — PMD Designer's release key passphrase (GPG) available on Maven Central in cleartext

EPSS 0.3%CVSS 9.3
critical.is priorityof 100
33
CVSS 9.3 (CNA)9.3 / 10 × 3027.9Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 26.1.261 × 205.2No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

PMD is an extensible multilanguage static code analyzer. The passphrase for the PMD and PMD Designer release signing keys are included in jar published to Maven Central. The private key itself is not known to have been compromised itself, but given its passphrase is, it must also be considered potentially compromised. As a mitigation, both compromised keys have been revoked so that no future use of the keys are possible. Note, that the published artifacts in Maven Central under the group id net.sourceforge.pmd are not compromised and the signatures are valid.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
pmd< 7.10.0–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Clear
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/pmd/pmd/security/advisories/GHSA-88m4-h43f-wx84refgithub.com/pmd/pmd-designer/commit/1548f5f27ba2981b890827fecbd0612fa70a0362refgithub.com/pmd/pmd-designer/commit/e87a45312753ec46b3e5576c6f6ac1f7de2f5891