CVE Alert: CVE-2025-2411 – Akinsoft – TaskPano

Risk verdict

High risk: a remote attacker could bypass authentication without credentials, with no known active exploits at present.

Why this matters

Exploiting an OTP bypass can grant unauthorised access to user accounts and sensitive data, potentially exposing financial, personal and operational information. In practice, this undermines trust in the system and can trigger regulatory/compliance and incident response workloads.

Most likely attack path

An attacker can reach the login endpoint over the network without pre-existing credentials. By abusing the improper restriction on excessive authentication attempts, they bypass the OTP step and gain account access. Once inside, they operate within the compromised account’s privileges, with data exposure possible but constrained by the account’s scope.

Who is most exposed

Public-facing or inadequately protected TaskPano deployments (internet-exposed authentication endpoints, including on-prem and cloud-hosted instances) are at greatest risk, especially in multi-tenant or broadly shared environments.

Detection ideas

• Surge in failed authentication attempts from a small set of IPs or geographies.
• OTP verification events occurring without the intended MFA step.
• Successful logins following a burst of failed attempts.
• Access to sensitive modules soon after login from unusual locations.
• Anomalous login timings or sequences in authentication logs.

Mitigation and prioritisation

• Apply the vendor patch to v1.06.06 or newer; perform tests in a staging environment before rollout.
• Enforce MFA for all users and tighten OTP validation logic to prevent bypass.
• Implement rate limiting, per-credential/account lockouts, and robust anomaly detection on authentication endpoints.
• Disable any OTP bypass features or configurations until patched.
• Schedule deployment with change control; monitor post-patch authentication activity for signs of exploitation.