{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00020089","kind":"vulnerability","title":"NeuVector admin account has insecure default password","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-8pxw-9c75-6w56","CVE-2025-8077"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for github.com/neuvector/neuvector. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-74b66208781a48e5257a5d963b59e1d3"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-07-02T20:22:57.000Z","value":"9.8 critical","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-74b66208781a48e5257a5d963b59e1d3"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-74b66208781a48e5257a5d963b59e1d3","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8pxw-9c75-6w56","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-8pxw-9c75-6w56","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-05T03:47:11.081Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-74b66208781a48e5257a5d963b59e1d3"],"technology":"github.com/neuvector/neuvector","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Impact\n\nA vulnerability exists in NeuVector versions up to and including **5.4.5**, where a fixed string is used as the default password for the built-in `admin` account. If this password is not changed immediately after deployment, any workload with network access within the cluster could use the default credentials to obtain an authentication token. This token can then be used to perform any operation via NeuVector APIs.\n\nIn earlier versions, NeuVector supports setting the default (bootstrap) password for the `admin` account using a Kubernetes Secret named `neuvector-bootstrap-secret`. This Secret must contain a key named `bootstrapPassword`. However, if NeuVector fails to retrieve this value, it falls back to the fixed default password.\n\n### Patches\n\nThis issue is resolved in NeuVector version **5.4.6** and later. For rolling upgrades, it's strongly recommended to change the default `admin` password to a secure one.\n\nStarting from version **5.4.6**, NeuVector introduces additional Kubernetes RBAC permissions to ensure the bootstrap password can be securely managed via Secrets:\n\n```\nkubectl create role neuvector-binding-secret-controller \\\n  --verb=create,patch,update --resou","public_affected_ranges":["< 0.0.0-20250825191744-da1a462074c3"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-08T15:11:49.346Z","source_updated_at":"2026-07-02T20:22:57.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2025-08-28T13:33:36.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-05T03:47:11.081Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}