CVE Alert: CVE-2025-2414 – Akinsoft – OctoCloud

Risk verdict

High risk overall due to potential OTP-based authentication bypass over the network, with no current exploitation signals detected.

Why this matters

Allows unauthorised access to accounts and data if OTP checks can be bypassed, risking data leakage, privilege escalation, and lateral movement across tenants in multi-tenant deployments.

Most likely attack path

Network-based attack with no required user interaction or privileges. An attacker could trigger the OTP verification flow to bypass authentication, exploiting weakly restricted login attempts. The vulnerability is exploitable remotely and remains contingent on existing rate-limiting and monitoring controls.

Who is most exposed

Cloud tenants using OctoCloud with internet-facing authentication endpoints, especially where OTP-based login is part of the core workflow or admin access is exposed publicly.

Detection ideas

• Spike in failed and then successful login attempts from diverse IPs targeting OTP endpoints.
• Anomalous activity on authentication routes indicating bypass attempts (e.g., OTP verification calls succeeding without valid tokens).
• Logs showing excessive authentication attempt events or CAPEC-115-related alerts.
• WAF/RASP that flags irregular OTP-verification traffic patterns.
• Unusual new admin sessions without corresponding user activity.

Mitigation and prioritisation

• Patch to v1.11.01 or later immediately; verify patch deployment in all environments.
• Enforce strong rate limiting and lockouts on login/OTP endpoints; disable or throttle excessive attempts.
• Enforce multi-factor authentication beyond OTP where feasible; rotate OTP secrets and review OTP configurations.
• Segment and protect admin endpoints; monitor anomalous admin activity.
• Change management: schedule within the next release window; perform impact testing and roll-back plan.