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CVE-2025-41240

VMware bitnamicharts/appsmith — Mounted Kubernetes Secrets under a predictable path located within the web server document root

EPSS 0.8%CVSS 10.0
critical.is priorityof 100
41
CVSS 10.0 (CNA)10.0 / 10 × 3030.0Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 57.1.571 × 2011.4No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

Three Bitnami Helm charts mount Kubernetes Secrets under a predictable path (/opt/bitnami/*/secrets) that is located within the web server document root. In affected versions, this can lead to unauthenticated access to sensitive credentials via HTTP/S. A remote attacker could retrieve these secrets by accessing specific URLs if the application is exposed externally. The issue affects deployments using the default value of usePasswordFiles=true, which mounts secrets as files into the container filesystem.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
bitnamicharts/appsmith21.2.0 – 22.0.4–CNA
bitnamicharts/drupal5.2.0 – < 6.0.196.0.19CNA
bitnamicharts/wordpress24.2.0 – < 25.0.425.0.4CNA

Scores by source

vmware (CNA)10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/bitnami/charts/security/advisories/GHSA-wgg9-9qgw-529w