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CVE-2025-14611 · EUVD no mirror located · GCVE no mirror located Verified 2026-06-22

Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox vulnerability

Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox contain hardcoded cryptographic keys in their AES implementation, enabling unauthenticated attackers to bypass encryption on public endpoints and achieve arbitrary local file inclusion.

Verdict

Today item — known-exploited.

Hardcoded cryptographic material (CWE-798) in widely deployed file-sync products creates a direct path to unauthenticated remote file access. Active exploitation in the wild indicates immediate operational risk for exposed instances.

CISA KEV Yes · 2025-12-153EPSS 0.50949 (verify live)4Exploit Public PoC5
01

Is it exploitable?

— the evidence, ranked above the score
Exploit available
Public proof-of-concept exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
6 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-12-15).
CISA KEV ↗Confirmed
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.50949 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Gladinet, CentreStack and Triofox. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
NVD ↗Reported
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-798 Hard-coded Credentials — weakness family: Authentication.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
NVD ↗Reported
WeaknessCWE-798 · Hard-coded CredentialsAuthentication
02

Who’s exploiting it?

— attribution turns risk into urgency
Attribution not established

No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.

03

Why it matters

— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board
1

Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1

Attacker
I extract the hardcoded AES key from the application or public documentation to decrypt traffic to exposed endpoints.
Business
Encryption controls fail to protect data in transit, violating confidentiality assumptions for file-sync infrastructure.
2

Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2

Attacker
I craft a specially formed request using the known key to bypass authentication checks on file-access endpoints.
Business
Access controls are circumvented, allowing unauthorized file retrieval without valid credentials or audit trail.
3

Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3

Attacker
I exploit local file inclusion to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem, including configuration and sensitive data.
Business
Confidential files, credentials, and system configuration are exposed, enabling lateral movement and data exfiltration.
04

What to do

— defensible action
  • Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
05

Coverage & confidence

— what we know, and what we don’t

Established (cited)

  • KEV listing (CISA)
  • EPSS probability (FIRST)
  • Public PoC available (VulnCheck)
  • 6 reported-exploitation source(s)
  • CWE weakness mapping (NVD)
  • Public exploit availability
  • Catalogued by Huntress (CNA)
  • Named finder/reporter credit (CVE.org)
  • Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden

  • No EUVD / GCVE mirror in feed — single-authority dependency for the identifier.
  • EPSS & exposure are time-varying; verify live at the source.
  • Threat-actor attribution not established from feed data — absence of a name is not absence of compromise.
  • Disclosure & credit2
    Catalogued by HuntressCNA