CVE-2025-8077

NeuVector admin account has insecure default password

Published 17 Sep 2025Modified 18 Oct 2026CWE 1393

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

Severity by source

GHSA9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Description

A 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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

Source	Package	Fixed in
go::GitHub Security Advisory Go	github.com/neuvector/neuvector	0.0.0-20250825191744-da1a462074c3
chainguard	neuvector-scanner, neuvector-scanner-fips	3.959-r0
wolfi	neuvector-scanner	3.959-r0

Show all 4 entries from 3 sources

Source	Package	Fixed in
go::GitHub Security Advisory Go	github.com/neuvector/neuvector	0.0.0-20250825191744-da1a462074c3
chainguard	neuvector-scanner	3.959-r0
chainguard	neuvector-scanner-fips	3.959-r0
wolfi	neuvector-scanner	3.959-r0

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