CVE-2025-46382: Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CVE-2025-46382 Overview

CVE-2025-46382 is an information disclosure vulnerability classified under [CWE-200] Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor. The flaw allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to retrieve sensitive information from the affected system over the network. Exploitation requires no privileges and no user interaction, and the attack complexity is low. The vulnerability affects confidentiality only, with no direct impact on integrity or availability.

Critical Impact
An unauthenticated network attacker can access sensitive information exposed by the vulnerable component without user interaction.

Affected Products

Product details are not disclosed in the current NVD entry
Vendor advisory referenced through the Israeli Government CVE advisories listing
Consult the Israeli Gov CVE Advisories Listing for specific affected components

Discovery Timeline

2025-07-20 - CVE-2025-46382 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-46382

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-46382 stems from improper handling of sensitive information by the affected component. The flaw permits an attacker to observe data that should be restricted to authorized actors. Because the attack vector is network-based and no authentication is required, exposure can occur through routine unauthenticated interaction with the vulnerable service.

The vulnerability affects only the confidentiality of data. There is no evidence in the current advisory that the flaw enables code execution, data modification, or service disruption. The narrow impact scope suggests the disclosed data may include configuration parameters, session tokens, internal identifiers, or similar metadata rather than bulk data extraction.

At publication time, no public exploit code is known, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scoring places the near-term exploitation probability in the lower range relative to other disclosed vulnerabilities.

Root Cause

The root cause is aligned with [CWE-200], indicating the affected software returns or exposes information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to receive it. Common patterns include verbose error responses, unauthenticated API endpoints returning privileged data, or metadata leakage through diagnostic interfaces.

Attack Vector

Exploitation occurs over the network against the exposed service. An attacker sends crafted or benign requests to an endpoint that returns information without applying appropriate access controls. Full technical details are limited in the public record; see the Israeli Gov CVE Advisories Listing for further reference material.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-46382

Indicators of Compromise

Unusual volumes of unauthenticated requests to information-returning endpoints of the affected component.
Requests from external sources targeting diagnostic, status, configuration, or metadata routes.
Outbound responses containing internal identifiers, tokens, or configuration data delivered to unauthenticated clients.

Detection Strategies

Review web server and application logs for unauthenticated access patterns preceding sensitive responses.
Correlate response body sizes against expected baselines for unauthenticated endpoints to surface anomalous disclosures.
Deploy signatures on network security tooling that flag responses containing sensitive field names delivered without an authenticated session.

Monitoring Recommendations

Ingest application and access logs into a centralized analytics platform for continuous review.
Alert on repeated access to endpoints known to return metadata or configuration data from previously unseen source addresses.
Track authentication state on every request path and alert when sensitive fields appear in responses lacking an authenticated context.

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-46382

Immediate Actions Required

Identify systems running the affected component by cross-referencing the vendor advisory linked above.
Restrict network exposure of the vulnerable service to trusted networks pending a patch.
Enforce authentication on any endpoint that returns configuration, session, or diagnostic data.

Patch Information

No patch identifier is published in the current NVD record. Administrators should consult the Israeli Gov CVE Advisories Listing and the responsible vendor's security channels for remediation guidance and fixed versions.

Workarounds

Place the affected service behind an authenticated reverse proxy or API gateway that enforces access control on every request.
Disable or firewall off diagnostic, debug, and metadata endpoints that are not required for production operation.
Filter response payloads at an egress inspection layer to strip sensitive fields returned to unauthenticated clients.

bash

# Example: restrict access to a diagnostic endpoint at the reverse proxy layer
# nginx configuration snippet
location /diagnostics {
    allow 10.0.0.0/8;
    deny all;
    auth_basic "restricted";
    auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
    proxy_pass http://backend;
}