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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2025-23215 json

PMD Designer's release key passphrase (GPG) available on Maven Central in cleartext

published 2025-01-31 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-0212 , GHSA-88m4-h43f-wx84

cvss
9.3
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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 As a mitigation, both compromised keys have been revoked so that no future use of the keys are possible.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

Patch / fix

  • maven net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-designer 7.10.0
  • maven net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core 7.10.0
  • net.sourceforge.pmd pmd-core 7.10.0
  • pmd_project pmd 7.10.0
  • net.sourceforge.pmd pmd-designer 7.10.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 9.3 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
CNA 4.0 9.3 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Clear

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-designer
>=7.0.0, <7.10.0
7.10.0
maven net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-ui
>=6.14.0, <=6.19.0
 no fix listed
maven net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core
>=6.21.0, <7.10.0
7.10.0

Affected products

  • pmd pmd

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-540 Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Source Code
  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.