Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2025-60639 reports hardcoded credentials in the ATLAS-EPIC GitHub repository at commit f29312c dated 2025-05-26. Hardcoded secrets can let unauthorized parties access systems or data if the credentials are valid and reused. The public record does not identify a specific vendor product, deployment footprint, patch, or confirmed exploitation.
Executive priority
Treat this as a targeted exposure review, not a broad enterprise emergency. Prioritize teams that used or copied ATLAS-EPIC. Business urgency increases if the exposed credentials are valid, privileged, or reused in production or third-party services.
Technical view
The CVE is categorized as CWE-798: use of hard-coded credentials. CVSS v3.1 is 6.5 with network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges, and no user interaction. Impact is listed as low confidentiality and integrity impact, no availability impact. Affected CPEs and versions are not provided in the source bundle.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely for organizations that cloned, forked, mirrored, deployed, or integrated gsigel14/ATLAS-EPIC around commit f29312cf782ec5a6537fceaeb6a9ced7d7d04e1f. Evidence is insufficient to determine whether the credentials map to any live service or third-party environment.
Exploitation context
There is no KEV listing and no cited source in the bundle confirming active exploitation. The practical risk depends on whether the hardcoded credentials remained valid, had useful privileges, and were accessible through public repository history or downstream copies.
Researcher notes
The CVE record is sparse: no affected product metadata, CPEs, patch version, or exploit evidence are provided. Analysis should focus on the referenced repository and commit history, credential validity, privilege scope, and downstream reuse. Avoid assuming broader product impact without additional vendor or maintainer evidence.
Mitigation direction
- Check the project repository and CVE references for maintainer guidance or updates.
- If you used the commit, rotate or revoke any matching exposed credentials.
- Remove hardcoded secrets from internal forks, mirrors, builds, and configuration stores.
- Enable secret scanning for repositories that imported or copied this code.
- Avoid deploying code from the affected commit until reviewed.
Validation and detection
- Search internal source control for the affected commit hash.
- Identify forks, mirrors, CI artifacts, and deployments derived from ATLAS-EPIC.
- Run approved secret scanning against relevant repositories and build outputs.
- Confirm any discovered credentials are revoked or no longer accepted.
- Document whether the repository was ever used in production workflows.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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CWE-798: Credential and account abuse lookup
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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SSVC decision data
CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N3.92.5CISA-ADPVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
6.5MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Vulnerability timeline
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ADP provider summaries
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/gsiegel14/ATLAS-EPICCVE reference, mitre
- https://github.com/gsiegel14/ATLAS-EPIC/commit/f29312cf782ec5a6537fceaeb6a9ced7d7d04e1fCVE reference, mitre
- https://xancatos.org/cve202560639CVE reference, mitre
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CWE details
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Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Use of Hard-coded Credentials represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.