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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2025-23215

critical

CVE-2025-23215

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

Published Modified CWE 200, 312, 540
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

GHSA9.3CVSS: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

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by GHSA.

Description

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 As a mitigation, both compromised keys have been revoked so that no future use of the keys are possible.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 packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavennet.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core, net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-designer, net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-ui7.10.0
Show all 3 entries from 1 source
SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavennet.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core7.10.0
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavennet.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-designer7.10.0
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavennet.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-uino fix listed

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.