CVE-2025-23215 CRITICAL

CVE-2025-23215: PMD Designer's release key passphrase (GPG) available on Maven Central in cleartext

Vendor Pmd
Product pmd
Weakness CWE-200 · Info exposure
Published January 31, 2025
Last update April 4, 2025

CVSS base score

9.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS: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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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 As a mitigation, both compromised keys have been revoked so that no future use of the keys are possible.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

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 31, 2025 CVE published
April 4, 2025 Record updated